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Retired Soccer Star Briana Scurry on What a Concussion Feels Like

After she was hit, retired soccer star Briana Scurry felt off balance, sensitive to light and sound,and felt intense pain in her head and neck.

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Football High: Owen Thomas' Story

The issues of sports-related concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy were intensified when the brain of a deceased 21-year-old football player was examined.

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Grieving Your Loss and Loving Your "New" Children

Nicole Wight talks about the wrenching pain and difficulty of accepting that her kids would never again be the same.

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The Pathology of CTE Versus That of Other Neurodegenerative Diseases

So far, research shows that chronic traumatic encephalopathy does not occur in people who have not sustained repetitive hits to the head either in sports or in combat.

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Could CTE Be Diagnosed in People Before Death?

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can only be tested post-mortem, but George Visger, who suffers from hydrocephalus, has offered his brain for testing next time he needs brain surgery.

Can a Brain Injury Damage the Reticular Activating System?

The functions of the RAS like the sleep/awake cycle and pain signals can be damaged from a TBI.

Nathan Zasler, MD

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Sleeping Problems

Coming Clean About Drugs with Your Doctor

The overlapping problems of pain, prescription drugs, and substance abuse.

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Fatigue After Brain Injury: Getting Tired of Being So Tired

Depression, pain, sleep disturbance, and neuroendocrine abnormalities can all be reasons for extreme post-TBI fatigue.

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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Sleeping Problems

Symptoms

Does it Hurt to Eat After Traumatic Brain Injury?

Pain while eating after a TBI is uncommon, but issues with taste and smell are not.

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Learning to Honor New Limitations After Brain Injury

"Forged between the hammer and anvil of pain, I slowly learned that pacing myself and really being in tune with my new-found limitations could be a game-changer." David Grant reflects on his life after his TBI.

The Cruel to be Kind Paradox

Cruel to be Kind: A recruit carries another recruit during the Confidence Course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Sept. 17. Marine Corps Pfc. Cristian Torres

Service Members and Veterans can demonstrate their genuine concern for others by being aggressive or mean, either to help improve others or to protect others from the veteran’s own pain.

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Do You Need an Empathectomy?

Do you feel your loved one’s pain and sense of loss like it’s happening to you? Maybe, like Rosemary, you need an "empathectomy."

Growth and Change Through Trauma with Gratitude and Connection

A man watches two girls play a VR motorcycle video game in an arcade

The holiday season is upon us and that means family time and reflection. But this year just feels off. I’m not sure if it’s the change of seasons, the upcoming holidays, our added pressures at work, or just the stress of everything going on in the world, but my husband, Russ, and I have both been stressed.

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Military Traumatic Brain Injury: An Examination of Important Differences

Evidence for primary blast effects upon the central nervous system is limited and controversial. Learn more.

What Are the Potential Long-Term Outcomes of Concussion and Other Brain Injury?

From post-concussive syndrome to CTE. What we know about the potential long-term outcomes of brain injury.

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Is Caregiving a Burden?

The truth is, all family members are both a source of joy and a burden at one time or another. That’s what family life is: the art of weaving webs of joy between strands of pain is what creates the intricate fabric of family love. It’s not the people in our care who burden us; it’s our anger over circumstances...

We Lost Another Veteran Yesterday

It will be true on the day I post this, and it will be true on the day that you read it. Another Veteran will have succumbed to the struggle and died by suicide. You may wonder, “what can I do?”

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9 Things NOT to Say to Someone with a Brain Injury

Brain injury is confusing to people who don’t have one. Learn what to say and, more importantly, what NOT to say, to someone with a TBI.

Initiation, Planning, Organization, and Brain Injury

How to get up, get going, and follow through with your plans.

Waves of Grief

I cannot remember the first time I recognized grief for what it was following our son’s traumatic brain injury, but it has come to feel like a familiar acquaintance. These are some coping strategies that have helped me get through to the other side of my own grief.

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A Book for Non-Believers

Concussion and Mild Brain Injury: Not Just Another Headline

This book presents an enlightening array of personal accounts that illustrate the various ways that concussions have impacted people, families, and communities. I found all of them enlightening but, due to space, can only reveal a few quotes that stood out to me...