Brain injuries can happen in seconds, but they can affect those involved for the rest of their lives. If you love someone who has a brain injury, you'll find yourself plunged into a world with a strange language all it's own. These are some terms that you need to be...
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Man who suffered brain injury from rubber bullets gets settlement
When a 16-year-old California teenager headed home from a party one night, he was intoxicated, feeling suicidal and in need of help. He hesitated over killing himself and called the emergency hotline instead -- although he still kept a knife raised to his own throat...
How can traumatic brain injuries be diagnosed among the living?
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been in the news quite a bit lately. Studies of deceased former National Football League (NFL) players showed evidence of the disease in almost every one of the bodies donated for the study. When former NFL player Aaron...
Go to the emergency room at the first sign of brain trauma
Could a simple slip-and-fall injury actually cause brain damage? Absolutely. As the old saying goes, "It isn't the fall that hurts you -- it's the landing." It doesn't matter whether you're falling off a ladder or simply tripping over a hole in a shopping center's...
Aaron Hernandez, 27, had severe brain damage at death
In retrospect, it surprised few when it was revealed this week that the late Aaron Hernandez was found to have evidence of severe deterioration of the brain matter necessary for higher executive functioning. Even before the former tight end for the New England...
The impact of balance problems on your life after a brain injury
A traumatic brain injury (TBI) can leave you with a problem balancing -- which can affect your life in ways that you just wouldn't expect. In order to understand your balance problems and what you can do to minimize the problems, get as much information as possible on...
New research shows various effects of brain injury
Brain injuries are known to cause mental and personality changes in victims, some of which may be permanent or difficult to treat. Now, new research is starting to clarify the differences between different types of damage suffered after physical injury. The amygdala,...
Brain injuries by the numbers
A brain injury is one of the most complex types of injury, pain and disorientation for people. No two brain injuries are precisely alike, just as the circumstances around them are different. The brain is not even fully understood by medical science. However, we...
Why it’s so hard to treat and understand brain injuries
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are notoriously hard to understand and difficult to treat. Part of the reason is that experts note that no two TBIs are exactly the same. Every patient sees variations in the extent of the injury, the location, the symptoms and many...