by Daniel Corrin | Jul 18, 2011 | Community Events & Programs, Living with Brain Injury
The Brain Injury Association of America authors a quarterly publication, THE Challenge!, which offers readers advice, support and guidance for those who have sustained a traumatic brain injury and their families. The latest issue of THE Challenge! features several...
by Daniel Corrin | May 24, 2011 | Living with Brain Injury, News & Research
Impaired facial affect recognition appears to be a significant problem for survivors of traumatic brain injury. These difficulties can be partially attributed to problems with emotion perception. Mounting scientific evidence shows facial affect recognition to be...
by Daniel Corrin | May 11, 2011 | Living with Brain Injury, News & Research
A recent study produced by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center found that 30% of individuals who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) will experience depression after the injury. “Any patient who has a traumatic brain injury is at a real risk...
by Daniel Corrin | Apr 5, 2011 | Living with Brain Injury
“Aquired Brain Injury” was produced by Dean Powers, a Rehabilitation Consultant and Vocational Expert. The video follows a Q&A format, documenting the feedback of six suvivors with varying degrees of brain injury. It looks at the impact of brain injury...
by Daniel Corrin | Mar 30, 2011 | Living with Brain Injury
Christina MacEachern was injured on September 12th, 2005, when her head came into contact with a semi-trailer truck. She suffered severe bi-frontal lobe injuries. A 60-minute video of Christina (post-injury) was produced by Shawn Serdar of Pacific Producers Group and...
by Daniel Corrin | Mar 16, 2011 | Community Events & Programs, Living with Brain Injury
Even off the ice Sidney Crosby can’t help but make the headlines. Since January 5th of this year, the Pittsburgh Penguin’s captain and Canada’s golden boy has been recovering from concussion, after enduring two massive blows to the head only days apart. Hockey fans,...
