Do you suffer from the consequences of a traumatic brain injury (TBI) due to injury from an accident or fall?

Are you also between 18 and 55 years old?

If so, you may be eligible to take part in an exciting study!
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Episode #52: Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness
Category: Podcasts
Posted On 9/4/2009
Col. (Dr.) Christopher S. Williams is the senior executive director for Traumatic Brain Injury, Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Col. Williams will discuss the difference between traumatic brain injury, concussion, and PTSD and share his personal story. The appearance of advertising on this Web site, does not constitute endorsement by the DOD, of the products or services advertised on this site.

Sleep/Wake Disturbance Following Traumatic Brain Injury; Impact on Recovery of Cognitive-Communication Performance

Did you have a traumatic brain injury (TBI) 1 or more years ago? Since your injury do you have difficulty sleeping at night, or staying awake during the day?

Do you also have trouble concentrating or staying focused for periods of time, following conversations or remembering things you have done, heard or read? If so, you may be eligible for a research study.

A group of researchers from the University of Toronto are studying the impact of sleep problems on recovery from TBI, specifically in the areas of paying attention and concentrating, language processing (being able to listen to and follow conversation) and verbal memory (remembering information that you have heard, talked about or read).
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August 03, 2010
Military.com|by Bryant Jordan

Some Say TBI Cure is In the Air.

It seems the stuff of science fiction.

Take a patient with a wound or injury and place him in a chamber where he is exposed to 100 percent pure oxygen for up to one to two hours, and the wound miraculously heals.

But take the “fiction” out of the science and it’s now accepted medicine in cases of fractures, burns, severe blood loss, carbon monoxide poisoning and a half-dozen other injuries or conditions.

And some doctors say the treatment, dubbed “hyperbaric oxygen therapy,” can be useful to veterans suffering one of the signature wounds of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — traumatic brain injury.
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A Silent Epidemic Traumatic Brain Injury and Falls

Released: 6/11/2010 5:25 PM EDT Source: Johns Hopkins Medicine

Newswise — Experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine hosted a press conference following a continuing medical education program on the epidemiology of head injury in professional football. The program was an evidence-based review of traumatic brain injury in the sport.

The objectives of the conference on Traumatic Brain Injury in Professional Football: An Evidence-Base Perspective was to assess the current scientific knowledge on this subject and to make recommendations for the future research needed to answer the remaining questions regarding the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury (TBI).
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The Traumatic Brain Injury Forum was created to reach out and support you and your family.

TheBrainMatters.org is a website for people who have various neurological conditions, one of which is TBI. If you click on the TBI page, you’ll notice a link for research studies that are currently recruiting subjects. It’s a good example of what we’d discussed! There are also many other interesting things too!