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01/31/2020
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MARCH 26-27, 2020

2020 BIAMD ONLINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS LIVE!



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This Offering is part of BIAMD's Membership Content Initiative, and will become a part of the Member Exclusive content available on the BIAMD Member Portal coming in late January.

5) What is the Maryland Department of Rehabilitative Services (DORS) and what does it do?
CLICK HERE to get the informative downloadable Slide Presentation in PDF Format.
I TS ALSO TIME TO NOMINATE YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES, AND INFLUENCERS FOR



The Nomination Categories are:

  • Individual with a Brain Injury
  • Family Member / Partner / Friend
  • Healthcare Professional - Working in the Brain Injury Community
  • Supporter / Advocate - Making Contributions in an Official Capacity

Awards will be presented at the BIAMD Annual Conference General Session on Thursday, March 26, 2020, at the Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City, Maryland. 

Nominations should be received by no later than March 1, 2020 to allow us adequate time to select the award recipient and make arrangements for them to attend the awards ceremony.  

Stress isn't always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you're playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it's continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can affect brain size, its structure, and how it functions, right down to the level of your genes.

CLICK HERE to see short TED talk by Madhumita Murgia.
MSKTC Recruiting Participants for TBI Consumer Factsheet Testing

The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center ( MSKTC) is recruiting individuals with traumatic brain injury and their caregivers to provide feedback on new consumer factsheets on a wide range of topics such as behavior problems and sleep apnea.

To be eligible, participants must be at least 18 years old. Participants will receive a $25 gift card for their time. Call (202) 403-5600 or email  msktc@air.org  to register.  
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It was only around 5,000 years ago that the human brain made a major breakthrough: Building on neural circuits that could already interpret scratches on clay tablets and the symbols in cave paintings, it developed the capacity to link the sounds of spoken language to the abstract visual marks we call words. In other words, humans learned to read.
The act of reading activates a symphony of brain activity, involving not only the visual and auditory systems but neural circuits that build meaning, evoke emotion, and encode memory. When you read, your brain does much more than simply comprehend the words in front of you: It enables you to empathize with people you’ve never met, to engage with ideas that challenge and inspire you, to imagine other worlds.

That is, if you can remember what you’re reading.

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2) What We are Reading We Think
You Might Find Interesting
What do you do when stress takes over your life, and nothing you do to feel better seems to work?

A #1 bestseller in 9 categories on Amazon, Hijacked by Your Brain is the first book to explain how stress changes your brain and what you can do about it. Stress is not the enemy. In order to reduce stress, you have to understand why your brain causes you to feel stress and how you can take advantage of it to handle the high-stress people and situations in your life.

This groundbreaking book reveals the step missing in most stress reduction guides. We can't stop stress, but we can control the effect stress has on us.

Hijacked by Your Brain is the user's manual for your brain that shows you how to free yourself when stress takes over.

CLICK HERE for more on this wonderful book.
1) Quote We Are Contemplating...

"If we don't change the direction we are going, we will end up where we are headed."


Have you ever clicked on the pictures posted at the end of every #5ThoughtsFridays? Try it. You might learn something fun!
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