Abstract

Objective

To determine how participation in leisure activities for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI) changes from before injury to 1 year after injury.

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Sexual Disinhibition and Social Skills: Behavioral Interventions for Persons with TBI.

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Disability & Sexuality-Debunking the Myths and Working to Break Down Barriers.

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Integrating Sexuality into Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation

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Rehabilitation, Disability, and Participation

People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) experience memory and learning difficulties. Difficulty in the initial acquisition of information is a primary reason people with TBI experience difficulties in learning and memory.

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Abstract
Disagreement exists regarding the extent to which persistent post-concussive symptoms (PCS) reported by Iraq combat Veterans with repeated episodes of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) from explosive blasts represent structural or functional brain damage or an epiphenomenon of comorbid depression or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Objective assessment of brain function in this population may clarify the issue.

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Chief of Staff of the Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr. has sent a message to commanders throughout the force to reinforce new policies designed to minimize the effects of mild traumatic brain injuries, or mTBI.

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Research Article

Previous research with other trauma populations demonstrated that internalizing and externalizing personality styles are associated with different PTSD comorbidities. The present study tested this association in two distinct Operation Enduring Freedom-Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) combat samples.

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