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#5ThoughtsFriday 03/17/2017
St. Patrick's Day Edition
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Here are the 5 things we thought were
worth sharing with you this week:
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5) "It's one of the best Brain Injury Events you will ever attend..."
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"Partners in Progress" on March 23-24, 2017, is a multi-track neuro-conference focusing on issues related to: individuals with brain injury and family members, children and adolescents in the school system, advocacy, and professional and clinical training.
The purpose of the two-day conference is to provide state-of-the-art information about brain injury treatment, services, research, and advocacy, and to improve collaboration and networking between individuals with brain injury, families and professionals.
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CEU's in GREEN have been APPROVED.
- 12 - Comm. for Case Managers
- 12 - Comm. for Rehab. Counselors
- (Pending) - Md. Bd. of Physical Therapy Examiners
- 12 - Md. Bd. of Examiners for Audiologists, Hearing Aid Dispensers, & SLPs
- 12 - Md. Bd. of Occupational Therapy Practice
- 12 - Md. Bd. of Professional Counselors
- 12 - Md. Workers’ Comp. Comm'n (MD WCC MCRSP)
- 12 - Md. Bd. of Social Work Examiners (Cat. 1)
- 12 - Md. Bd. of Psychologists
- 12 - Md. Nurses Assoc.
- 12 - Am. Therapeutic Rec. Assoc. - (Cat B)
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4) Can Long-term treatment with drugs like Ritalin or Concerta help with fatigue after traumatic brain injury?
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may cause long-lasting physical, cognitive, and emotional impairments even irrespective of the severity of the TBI [1]. Common long-lasting symptoms include fatigue, concentration and memory problems, sensitivity to sound, light, and stress, irritability, emotional instability, and headache [2-4]. As a consequence, social dysfunction including inability to work, along with health and economic impacts for the patients and society, emerges. In this study, we focused specifically on mental fatigue, as this symptom has a substantial impact on the ability to resume work or studies and also interferes considerably with social life.
There is currently no effective treatment for mental fatigue. Guidelines for the use of methylphenidate for deficits in attention and processing speed after TBI have been suggested [5], while no such guidelines exist for fatigue.
To read the rest of the study and its hopeful conclusions, CLICK HERE.
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It is something of a cliché among runners, how the activity never fails to clear your head. Does some creative block have you feeling stuck? Go for a run. Are you deliberating between one of two potentially life-altering decisions? Go for a run. Are you feeling mildly mad, sad, or even just vaguely meh? Go for a run, go for a run, go for a run.
The author Joyce Carol Oates once wrote in a column for the New York Times that “in running the mind flees with the body … in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms.” Filmmaker Casey Neistat told Runner’s World last fall that running is sometimes the only thing that gives him clarity of mind. “Every major decision I’ve made in the last eight years has been prefaced by a run,” he told the magazine. But I maybe like the way a runner named Monte Davis phrased it best, as quoted in the 1976 book The Joy of Running “It’s hard to run and feel sorry for yourself at the same time,” he said. “Also, there are those hours of clear-headedness that follow a long run.”
To read the Article in Science of Us, CLICK HERE
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2) What We Are Reading That You Might Enjoy...
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Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. Phineas, a railroad construction foreman, was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived to live another eleven years and become a textbook case in brain science.
At the time, Phineas Gage seemed to completely recover from his accident. He could walk, talk, work, and travel, but he was changed. Gage "was no longer Gage," said his Vermont doctor, meaning that the old Phineas was dependable and well liked, and the new Phineas was crude and unpredictable.
His case astonished doctors in his day and still fascinates doctors today. What happened and what didn’t happen inside the brain of Phineas Gage will tell you a lot about how your brain works and how you act human.
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1) Quote We Are Contemplating...
“If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. ”
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Thanks
to All of These Amazing Conference Sponsors:
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REMINDER -
Its Time to Take Brain Injury Awareness to Capitol Hill
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Brain Injury Awareness Day
Washington, D.C.
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Did you enjoy #5ThoughtsFriday? If so, please forward this email to a friend! Got a story we need to follow or share?
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Thanks for reading! Have a wonderful weekend.
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