Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people suffer serious, permanent damage to their brains because of traumatic head injury.
Survivors of brain trauma are often left with long-term damage to their ability to think and to learn, to remember and plan, and they may suffer permanent loss of body movement.
Family members can be emotionally drained trying [...]
The severity of the injury - whether it is mild, moderate or severe - will have a large bearing on when and if someone is able to return to work following a traumatic brain injury. But that is only one of the many things that will determine a survivor’s ability to return to the work [...]
Apathy is very common following a traumatic brain injury and may often occur in conjunction with depression, but not always. It may become apparent shortly after a brain injury or may not be evident until a few years later.
There are many indications of this deficit - a decrease in goal-oriented activities and no interest in [...]
Following a traumatic brain injury, the survivor may become dependent upon those close to them. These dependencies may be emotional in nature or based on a substance abuse. Whatever dependency is involved, it can lead to difficulties in recovering from the injury.
Some of the emotional problems that can lead to dependency are a result of [...]