Long-term effects of TBI A new longitudinal study conducted by Seena Fazel of the University of Oxford, and colleagues, and published in PLOS Medicine, has found that children and adolescents experiencing even milder forms of TBI (including concussion) may have reduced longevity and significant psychosocial problems in adulthood. Peter McCabe, Chief Executive of brain injury […]
Research study
Are you a partner/spouse of someone who has had a traumatic brain injury in the last 10 years? If so, would you be interested in taking part in some research being carried out at the University of Birmingham? We are developing a questionnaire about the spouse’s/partner’s experience of what happens to their relationship after a […]
‘But you Don’t look Disabled’
Dave Bowes “As a para-climber I often hear the phrase: ‘He shouldn’t be here – he doesn’t look disabled.’ Having a hidden disability can be very frustrating indeed.” When World Cup para-climber Dave Bowes, from Wirral, sustained a traumatic brain injury in a motorbike accident in 2007, he began to experience severe behavioural changes and […]
