Changes in Memory After TBI

Changes in Memory After TBI consists of a suite of resources to help individuals with traumatic brain injury understand changes in memory after TBI and offers strategies that can help people who experience this function more effectively.

Resources

Videos

Our featured video shows Jason Cowper and Tonya Howell as they share their stories of coming to terms with changes in their memory, and strategies they use to compensate for these changes. The video also includes the perspectives of health care professionals at the Texas TBI Model System of TIRR Memorial Hermann, who provide clinical insight on the changes in memory that some people experience after sustaining a TBI.

Quick Reviews

Working Memory Capacity in Moderate to Severe TBI

This article examined how memory capacity relates to long-term memory outcomes after TBI.

Slideshows

Memory and Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Memory problems are very common in people with moderate to severe TBI. The information in this slideshow explains memory problems that may affect people with moderate to severe TBI. By understanding the new limits on their memory and ways to help overcome those limits, people with TBI can still get things done every day.

Factsheets

Depression After Traumatic Brain Injury

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Factsheets

Emotional Problems After Traumatic Brain Injury

Brain injury and emotions

A brain injury can change the way people feel or express emotions. An individual with TBI can have several types of emotional problems.

Slideshows

Emotional Problems after a Traumatic Brain Injury

A brain injury can change the way people feel or express emotions. An individual with TBI can have several types of emotional problems. The information in this slideshow describes the causes of emotional problems after a TBI.