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Tag Archives: traumatic brain injury
NIDRR Seeks Peer Reviewers for Field-Initiated Grant Competitions
This summer, NIDRR will conduct multiple field-initiated grant competitions in its DRRP and RRTC programs, and is seeking reviewers to participate in the peer-review process for these competitions. If you would like to be considered for service as a reviewer … Continue reading
Still time to register for the TBI Summit!
Join the NIDRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Interventions for Children and Youth with TBI November 15th for one-day summit focused on educational strategies and psychosocial interventions for children with TBI. The program includes a series of presentations and … Continue reading
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Disability in the News: Story and Video Essays on Traumatic Brain Injury Featured at HEALTH on TODAY.com
As father’s day fast approaches, TODAY.com contributor Bill Briggs tells his personal story about his daughter’s recovery from traumatic brain injury: “Bringing Andrea back from brain injury: A father’s story.” The story includes two video essays: Raising their Child, for … Continue reading
Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities: State of the Science Conference. Part II.
NARIC’s Bilingual Information/Media Specialist, Marta Garcia, attended this year’s Race, Ethnicity, and Disabilities: State of the Science Conference held on March 1 and 2, 2012. During the conference, Ms. Garcia attended panel presentations, track sessions, and networking opportunities. There were … Continue reading
Cognitive Function Levels after Brain Injury
The Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center recently published an online Spanish-language guide for families who have a family member with a brain injury. This guide describes the Rancho Levels of Cognitive Function, a scale developed by researchers to describe … Continue reading
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month
According to the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year. Of these 1.7 million people, 52,000 die, 275,000 are hospitalized, and 1.3654 million (nearly 80%) are … Continue reading
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Sensory Stimulation and Snoezelen
Sensory stimulation refers to interventions designed to stimulate one or more of the five senses. These interventions are designed to provide a relaxing and soothing activity which is failure free, responsive to the individual, and is enabling. Sensory stimulation interventions … Continue reading
NFL Takes Initiative in Head Injury Prevention and Care
With the issues of head injury and concussion in the spotlight recently, the National Football League has made amendments to its concussion policies and these changes have been implemented this season. By the leagues own estimation, roughly 175 concussions occur … Continue reading
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Tagged brain injury, concussion, education, spinal cord injury, sports, traumatic brain injury
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NIH Database will speed up research of Traumatic Brain Injury
In a press release from August 29th, 2011, NIH will build a database that will help speed research of traumatic brain injury (TBI) to better its prevention, diagnosis and treatment. This database is being built-in conjunction with the Department of Defense. … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, disability, knowledge translation, news release, NIH, NINDS, study, TBI, traumatic brain injury
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Notice of Proposed Rule Making: Secondary Service Connection for Diagnosable Illnesses Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury
On December 12th, 2012 the Veterans Affairs Department (VA) published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend VA adjudication regulations (38 CFR Part 3) by revising 38 CFR 3.310 to add five diagnosable illnesses as secondary conditions associated … Continue reading →