What is this blog about? This blog discusses the underlying sources for emotional distress that is experienced by people who suffered a brain injury or disease that negatively impacts brain functioning. It provides concrete information on how to address symptom…

There are many different types of brain injury.  They include for example concussions, stroke, brain infections, and chemo-brain. Whichever way a brain injury is sustained, it is a painful experience  –  not only for the injured person but also for…

Explaining “concussion” The word concussion is derived from latin- to concuss means ‘shaking’. When used in the context of traumatic brain injury, this ‘shaking’ of the brain leads to a neurometabolic cascade (e.g. injury response at the brain cell level).…

Early care: Most concussions will resolve within days to months with no long-term functional consequences. But concussion recovery depends on many factors including factors that are external as well as internal to the person. Internal factors can include: a person’s…