Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Brain injury

  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - Traumatic brain injury, the signature wound of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is doubly cruel: it leaves many victims emotionally shattered and cognitively crippled.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • Just a single season of contact sports can take a toll on college athletes ability to learn, according to a new study.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • A serious head injury to Phineas Gage in 1848 is providing information regarding personality to present-day scientists at UCLA. Mr.
  • (Examiner)
  • Over 1 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury every year in the United States, but perhaps no one is as historically famous for surviving one as Gage.
  • (CNN)
  • For now, only an autopsy confirms a diagnosis. Traumatic brain injury, or TBI, is a signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, most of them closed-head injuries caused by being near an explosion.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • WASHINGTON - A soldier with two Iraq deployments under his belt decided to put his film degree to good use. His documentary, Along Recovery is showcased this week at the GI Film Festival in D.C.
  • (WTOP)
  • Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and traumatic brain injury share common features, including psychiatric symptoms and long-term memory and learning problems.
  • (US News and World Report)
  • May 16, 2012 marks twenty years since swimming linked together many different lives. My Positive Perspective discusses how sports shape healthy lifestyles in children and helps them add and continue friendships.
  • (San Francisco Gate)

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