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    Understanding and Coping With Irritability, Anger, and Aggression After TBI

    What are irritability, anger, and aggression and how can you recognize them? Irritability is an emotional state in which a person has a short temper and is easily annoyed or angered. As a result, small things can lead to harsh reactions (for example, snapping at family or friends). This is most ...

  • TBI Ambassador: Patrina Torres

     Meet Patrina Role Founder and Clinical Director or Totally Healed International and Founder of Crossroad Women and Family Services Location New York Bio Patrina ran into a wall during a childhood play and suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). She had a second TBI shortly after in a car accident. As a result, she had problems ...
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    Voting Tips for People Living with Traumatic Brain Injury

      People with traumatic brain injury (TBI) may experience challenges in voting due to a range of impairments in physical, hearing, vision, communication, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral function. Obstacles may include registering to vote, remembering to vote, accessing transportation, physically navigating the polling place, understanding ballot design, and utilizing technologies for ...
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    Social Skills After Traumatic Brain Injury

    What Are Social Skills? Social skills are the skills people use to communicate and interact with others. Social skills include what you say, as well as your body language, eye contact, facial expressions, tone of voice, and other actions. Cognitive skills (for example: staying focused, memory) and emotions (for example: anxiety, ...

  • About the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center

    The Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center (MSKTC) is a national center operated by the American Institutes for Research® (AIR®) that translates health information into easy to understand language and formats for patients with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, and burn injury and their families and caregivers. The center reviews ...