He lost much of his right arm and suffered multiple injuries, including severe traumatic brain injury.
Cholinesterase inhibitors are not useful in dementia caused by Huntington's disease or traumatic brain injury.
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In the weeks and months that followed, he battled to recover from traumatic brain injury.
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We have seen a growing number of veterans returning with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
In 1994, the NFL voluntarily created the Committee on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI).
On top of that, he purportedly suffered short-term memory loss as a result of traumatic brain injury.
The constant threat of IEDs has meant a new generation of service members with multiple traumatic injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury.
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He was also diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress.
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Bales' attorneys have said that he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and sustained a traumatic brain injury during a prior deployment to Iraq.
Mrs Creane, who previously worked as a successful HR manager, was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury and a serious form of epilepsy.
And I will pass what's called the Heroes at Home legislation that helps those affected by traumatic brain injury and supports their families.
Last year's budget also included money to improve care and treatment for our wounded warriors, especially those with post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury.
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Over the years, Mr. Welch experienced an expanding list of symptoms of PTSD and traumatic brain injury, from insomnia and anxiety to dizziness and vomiting.
The US military has reported almost 230, 000 cases of traumatic brain injury among more than 2 million Americans who have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Nick Colgin, who served for 15 months in Afghanistan as a combat medic, suffered a traumatic brain injury after a rocket-propelled grenade slammed into his Humvee.
Bales was also treated for traumatic brain injury when the vehicle he was traveling in during a deployment in Iraq in 2010 rolled over, military officials said.
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The first will involve a 40 million research project led by GE to better diagnose mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), and to predict the outcomes over time.
The same percentage are living with a traumatic brain injury.
Private Health is designed to backfill these gaps whenever one of its patients has a medical emergency or complex condition, say, a traumatic brain injury or newly diagnosed cancer.
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It means that we're going to provide services for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, that we're going to provide services for Traumatic Brain Injury that are the signature injuries of these recent wars.
Fort Bragg's Womack Army Medical Center, he points out, with its Warrior Transition Battalion, for those injured in war, and an advanced traumatic brain injury center, is just 5 miles away.
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The leading nursing schools and nursing organizations have committed to educate current and future nurses on how to recognize and treat post-traumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, depression and other combat-related issues.
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We don't know what will happen to funding for the programs designed to tackle this war's ugly twins, post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, not to mention the rising suicide epidemic among veterans and military family members.
She joined the U.S. Navy Corps in 1996 as a nurse, and has served at military medical facilities around the world. as a pre-doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania, her research is focused on traumatic brain injury.
While a deeper understanding of neuro-plasticity is extremely relevant for people who have suffered from a stroke or other traumatic brain injury, what has piqued my interest most is its application for those of us whose brains already work perfectly well.
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Kevin Guskiewicz, director of the University of North Carolina's Matthew Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center, said the "vast majority" of kids playing in youth football leagues aren't going to have the type of exposure to injury NFL players have.
The Defense Centers of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury (DCoE) was created in 2007 after Congress instructed the Pentagon to form an organization to help troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with brain injuries from explosions and PTSD.
Newly released AAN (American Academy of Neurology) guidelines earlier this week to manage sports-related concussions recommend trainers, coaches and physicians to err on the side of caution and remove athletes from play in the setting of a possible traumatic brain injury or concussion.
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