Perhaps it should not be surprising that “The Vow” topped the box office during the weekend before Valentine’s Day. The $41.7 million that the love story pulled in opening weekend is the biggest opening weekend for any movie so far this year. There have been countless productions from Hollywood attempting to depict memory loss, and “The Vow” is another one based on a real-life story, this one of Kim and Krickitt Carpenter. In the film version, the recently married couple is involved in a car crash that causes Rachel McAdams’ character to suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and forget the past five years of her life. In real life, Krickitt Carpenter had no memory of the two years leading up to the accident. While many movies based on real-life events have played fast and loose with some of the facts, CNN mental health expert Dr. Charles Raison wrote on…
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‘The Vow’ Misleading about the Reality of Recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury
February 22nd, 2012How to Cope with an Uncertain Future Following a Traumatic Brain Injury
February 20th, 2012In the February 2012 newsletter from the Brain Injury Association of Indiana (BIAI), Dr. Taryn Stejskal writes that traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors, spouses and family members often ask “when” questions. Noting that people typically want to know when they can return to normal activities such as driving, employment or school, Stejskal points out that “it is difficult for professionals to know exactly when a person will be able to resume important activities, and oftentimes, some professionals underestimate the amount of healing and recovery a person.” Stejskal offers these tips for victims and family members to keep in mind following a TBI: Physical and emotional recovery are two different things — Stejskal notes that physical recovery is “the process of healing the body and mind after a brain injury,” while emotional recovery is “the process of understanding and coping with the long-term implications, changes, and losses that can be brought…
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TBIs among Huge Threats to Infant Safety
February 17th, 2012Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) were among the types of serious damage resulting from physical abuse that led to nearly 4,600 U.S. children being hospitalized in 2006. The finding was part of a new study published in the journal Pediatrics that represents the first broad U.S. estimate of serious injuries due to child abuse. Reuters reported on February 6, 2012, that the researchers behind the study noted in the report that serious abuse is a bigger threat to infant safety than sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). “There is a national campaign to prevent SIDS,” Dr. John Leventhal of Yale University, who led the new study, told Reuters. “We need a national campaign related to child abuse where every parent is reminded that kids can get injured.” Based on numbers from the 2006 Kids’ Inpatient Database, the latest such data available, the study found babies younger than one were the most common…
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