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Texas Brain Injury Alliance (TexasBIA) provides help, hope and a voice for Texans who have sustained a brain injury.
TexasBIA is the only Texas statewide non-profit organization wholly committed to helping brain injury survivors prevail. It is one of 24 state Brain Injury Alliances chartered by the United States Brain Injury Alliance and dedicated to improving lives for individuals who live with brain injury, their families, and the professionals who serve them through awareness, prevention, advocacy, support, research, education and community engagement.
Brain injury is not an event—it marks the start of a neurological disease that most often lasts a lifetime. Individuals who sustain a brain injury must have quick access to expert trauma care, followed by specialized rehabilitation and lifelong disease management to live healthy, independent and satisfying lives.
Call our Brain Injury Help Line at 1-800-392-0040
Email us at info@texasbia.org
NEWS
Researchers looking for hope for brain injuries…
DALLAS — It’s a time of year when people look forward to great things to come in the year ahead. The Dallas Morning News discovered the following great things to come for brain injury in North Texas.
Therapy for brain injuries
We’ve all heard the singsong phrase, “Practice makes perfect.”
If you can’t sing a song, practice singing. If you can’t play the violin, practice playing. If you can’t read a book, practice reading. For those of us with normal, intact brains, the more we practice, the more we eventually learn what we’re practicing.
Not so for someone with brain injury.
No matter how much they practice, most people who’ve suffered from a brain injury can’t learn even the most menial tasks they were able to do before the injury, like walking or opening a door, says Dr. Michael Kilgard, professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
“It’s just that the brain is in a state that’s not conducive for learning,” he says.
That’s why Kilgard and his team at UTD are working on a therapy that will change the state of neurons in a brain damaged by stroke, making them more conducive to learning… READ MORE
Brain-injury expert says concussions have devastating impact on football
COLLEGE STATION - Brain injuries suffered by NFL players are now becoming commonplace and many more cases are almost certain to occur with tragic results, said an expert from Boston College during a sports medicine symposium Friday at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Ann McKee, director of neuropathology at Boston College, also serves as a member of the Mackey White Traumatic Brain Injury Committee for the National Football League. She is an expert on brain injuries, especially those involving chronic traumatic encephalopathy, called CTE.
She has examined numerous brains of deceased NFL players, including that of former San Diego Charger Junior Seau, who committed suicide with a gunshot wound to the chest on May 2, 2012 at the age of 43. Later studies by the National Institutes of Health concluded that Seau suffered from CTE, a type of chronic brain damage that has also been found in other deceased former NFL players… READ MORE
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