Expert Q&amp;A

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What Is Vocational Rehabilitation and How Does It Help with Depression?

Learn more about vocational rehabilitation and how it can help treat depression after a brain injury.

Robert Fraser, PhD

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Can Antidepressants Be Used to Treat Depression After a Brain Injury or Stroke?

Can Antidepressants Be Used to Treat Drepression After a Brain Injury or Stroke?

Dr. Fann explains how he approaches using antidepressants for people struggling with depression after a brain injury or a stroke.

Jesse Fann, MD

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What Are the Goals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Dr. Fann explains the three goals of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) after brain injury.

Jesse Fann, MD

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Why is a Team Approach Important When Treating Brain Injury?

Dr. Esselman explains why brain injury treatment usually requires a team of health professionals.

Peter C. Esselman, MD

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Why Is It So Critical to Treat Depression in People with Brain Injury?

Depression is something that can be a big part of the picture when it comes to recovery from a brain injury. Dr. Artherholt explains why treatment is critical.

Samantha Artherholt, PhD

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What Keeps People from Getting Treatment for Depression Following a Brain Injury?

Dr. Bombardier talks about brain injury, depression, and stigma and how to get past that in working with patients.

Charles Bombardier, PhD, MS

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How Can Depression Affect Recovery from Brain Injury?

Learn why depression has the potential for affecting a person’s overall recovery from a brain injury.

Charles Bombardier, PhD, MS

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How Common Is Depression After Moderate or Severe Brain Injury?

Dr. Fann explains the prevalence of depression after brain injury.

Jesse Fann, MD

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What is the Difference Between Depression and Situational Sadness?

How to distinguish situational sadness from depression following a brain injury.

Jesse Fann, MD

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Why Do People Get Depression After a Brain Injury?

There are a number of reasons why people get depressed after a brain injury. There are also a lot of contributors to it.

Jesse Fann, MD

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What is Depression?

While everybody experiences depression in a different way, there are some core features of depression that affect a person's quality of life.

Jesse Fann, MD

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Diagnosing & Treating Brain Injury

What Are the Most Common Kinds of Visual Problems after Brain Injury?

40-50% percent of the brain is involved in vision; so if a person’s brain is damaged in a specific location or several locations, there is a high probability that his vision will be affected in some way.

Gregory Goodrich, PhD

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Vision Problems

Can the Drugs Namenda and Aricept Help After Brain Injury?

Learn about the risks and benefits of these drugs for symptoms of brain injury.

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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It is Never Too Late to Get Rehabilitation for Brain Injury

A child with a brain injury may develop more injury-related issues as an adult.

Celeste Campbell, PsyD

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Physical Symptoms of Brain Injury

Can Symptoms of Hypopituitarism Present Years After a Brain Injury?

Symptoms of hypopituitarism — a condition in which the pituitary gland does not produce normal amounts of some or all of its hormones — would most likely show up soon after a TBI.

Nathan Zasler, MD

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Symptoms

What Is the Ideal Timeline to Do MRIs, fMRIs, DTIs, and Fiber Tracking to Diagnose TBI?

More than imaging, diagnosis of TBI is still based on the initial symptoms at the time of the injury.

Jeffrey Bazarian, MD

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Diagnosing & Treating Brain Injury

Changes in Taste, Smell, and Hormones After Brain Injury

How and why does a TBI change a person’s ability to taste and smell, and cold hands and feet, too?

Brian D. Greenwald, MD

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Intimate Relationships

Is It Okay to Engage in Heavy Lifting After a Brain Injury?

Oftentimes balance issues influence restrictions about lifting heavy objects after a brain injury.

Nathan Zasler, MD

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Concussion / Mild TBI