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Feb 5, 2019
1 min

Your Dazzling Brain - Understanding Pain

Pain is one of the marvelous mechanisms your brain uses t tell you to stop and take care of yourself - to pay attention. At its best, pain c

‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill

John Tiwald

Dec 10, 2018
14 min

‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill

More than 200 interviews and thousands of pages of medical, social work and housing records reviewed by ProPublica and FRONTLINE, in collabo

John Tiwald

Nov 14, 2018
1 min

Journalist and Best-Selling Author Kurt Eichenwald is Interviewed About His Brain Injury

In a recent interview on Christiane Amanpour and Co.'s show (PBS 11-12-18) journalist and New York Times best-selling author Kurt Eichen

John Tiwald

Dec 20, 2017
3 min

Brain Lesions May Explain Criminal Behavior

Brain lesions temporally associated with criminal behavior map to a common functional brain network involved in aspects of moral decision ma

John Tiwald

Aug 14, 2017
2 min

Domestic violence and brain injuries are linked, says researcher

Researcher says victims need to be properly screened for traumatic brain injuries By Flora Pan, CBC News | July 28, 2017 More domestic...

The Earliest Signs of Brain Damage in Athletes? Listen for Them

John Tiwald

Jun 6, 2017
5 min

The Earliest Signs of Brain Damage in Athletes? Listen for Them

A small study of NFL players suggests that the signs of CTE may be found with a low-cost, noninvasive test that tracks changes in conversati

John Tiwald

May 16, 2017
5 min

A Simple, Clear Message on the Sports-Brain Injury Controversy

The debate over CTE's existence, associations, and causes has sparked politics and cover-up, breakthrough research, and even a Will Smit

John Tiwald

Nov 4, 2016
3 min

Traumatic Brain Injury Induces Mental Impairments Using Mechanisms Linked with Alzheimer’s

A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston fills an important gap in understanding the link between traumatic brai

John Tiwald

Oct 10, 2016
4 min

Concussions Can Occur in All Youth Sports

Recent attention to long-term brain damage linked to multiple concussions among professional football players has prompted a much closer loo

John Tiwald

Aug 26, 2016
3 min

Plasma Tau Levels Increased Post-TBI

Military personnel who sustain one or more TBIs — the signature injury in military personnel deployed for combat operations in Iraq and Afgh

Effective Concussion Treatment Remains Frustratingly Elusive, Despite a Booming Industry

John Tiwald

Aug 4, 2016
10 min

Effective Concussion Treatment Remains Frustratingly Elusive, Despite a Booming Industry

In a small brick building across the street from a Taco Bell in Marrero, LA, patients enter a clear plastic capsule and breathe pure oxygen.

Pseudobulbar Affect: Neurologic damage can disrupt brain signaling, causing a “short circuit”

John Tiwald

Jun 11, 2015
2 min

Pseudobulbar Affect: Neurologic damage can disrupt brain signaling, causing a “short circuit”

Click here to take an assessment to see if you may have PBA. The Science of PBA PseudoBulbar Affect (PBA) symptoms are frequent,...

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