Studies have shown that depression often follows hospitalization for a brain injury. A recent study was conducted, in which 559 hospitalized adults with TBIs were interviewed over the phone through months one, six, eight, ten and twelve after their release from the hospital. Depression and anxiety were evaluated with the Patient Health Questionnaire. The researchers …
Category Archive: Brain Trauma Foundation
Nov
12
Is it Just a Bump on the Head?
So you tripped on the stairs, or slipped on the ice. You fell in the office or chasing your kid in the playground. You might feel a bit woozy, a little dizzy, slightly confused. But then you pull yourself together and go back to doing what you’re doing. How could it be something serious? After …
Oct
23
New Federal Legislation on Student Head Injuries
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation this September to set federal guidelines for addressing sports-related concussions suffered by children playing school sports. While concussions are a serious problem for school-age children – high school football players alone are estimated to suffer 43,200 to 67,200 head injuries each year – there is little awareness of …
Oct
11
Alan Quasha and Brain Trauma News
Unfortunately, it seems that there has been a huge increase in visits from school-age athletes to the ER, suffering from concussions. This suggests that sports in schools for these kids is being intensified and further head injuries endured. The problem however, isn’t so much that there are more concussions, rather that it is possible children …
Sep
27
Brain Trauma Foundation Awards
The Brain Trauma Foundation, of which Alan Quasha is President, was the recipient of a grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation. This money is to be used to create the Attention Dynamics Consortium in Traumatic Brain Injury (ADC-TBI) which is a “bicoastal initiative to further explore the brain’s attention networks and how they are …
Sep
01
Recent Brain Trauma Foundation News
In recent news, the Brain Trauma Foundation with President Alan Quasha has received a grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation to form the Attention Dynamics Consortium in Traumatic Brain Injury (ADC-TBI). This will be a bicoastal initiative to explore the brain’s attention networks and how they are influenced by Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Researchers …
May
08
Alan Quasha on Long Term Effects of Brain Injury
Discussion on long-term recovery process for TBI sufferers.
Apr
06
Great Strides with TBI
The Brain Trauma Foundation has had many recent accomplishments. With their Chairman Alan Quasha, they have recently established the first New York TBI State trauma center tracking and compliance network together with the New York State Department of Health. They have the first research being done to study the neurobiology of mild TBI, or concussion, …
Mar
04
Brain Trauma Foundation Focuses on Concussions
One highly underreported type of brain injury is the concussion. The Brain Trauma Foundation, where Alan Quasha is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, is working to create better information about concussions. This is the most under diagnosed and underestimated head injury today. Also referred to as TBI, concussions account for 90% of all …