Neuroscience & Neurology | By April 08, 2008 | By Jared Tanner, MScloseJared Tanner, MS Name: Jared Tanner
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About: Mr. Tanner has an MS degree in psychology and is currently a PhD student in clinical psychology with an emphasis in neuropsychology. As a clinical psychologist in training, his interests are mainly in abnormal human behavior. With an emphasis in neuropsychology, he is interested in normal and abnormal brain structure and functioning. At the most basic level, neuropsychologists are interested in understanding the relationships between the brain and behavior. | 4 Comments

Traumatic Brain Injury: A Silent Epidemic

Approximately every 15 seconds, someone in America suffers a traumatic brain injury (TBI). There are about 1,500,000 new brain injuries each year. Most of these are mild concussions — which can have lasting cognitive effects — but many are much more severe. Approximately 50,000 Americans die each year as the result of brain injury; in fact it is the leading cause of death in Americans under the age of 45. There are three times as many deaths resulting from brain injuries each year than result from AIDS in the U.S. There are more TBIs each year than new cases of all types of cancer combined. Granted, cancer tends to be more lethal with roughly 500,000 deaths per year to 50,000 from TBI but TBIs are still very serious. TBIs have received relatively little attention, especially compared with the widespread campaigns raising awareness for diseases like breast cancer or HIV/AIDS. Some people have started calling TBIs a “silent epidemic.” Read more →