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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Classification and Nomenclature
The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report in 2022 outlining recommendations to improve research and care for people with

Brain Injury Association of America’s Public Awareness Campaign
“There’s an often repeated saying in the brain injury community: if you’ve seen one brain injury, you’ve seen one brain injury,” said Rick Willis, president

Brain Injury Awareness Day
Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill was held on March 6. More than 250 advocates from 37 states came to Washington, D.C., to meet

Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based practice of helping people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors; applying these six pillars of lifestyle medicine is not easy and

Joseph Cantor Elected as President of the Board of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia
Joseph Cantor, Partner of Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci, has been elected as the next President of the Board of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia (BIAV). His

Learning by Forgetting
Recent studies suggest forgetting might not be a bad thing but rather, a form of learning, and it might not be a problem with our

Learning Resilience
These are some great thoughts about resilience, which is the ability to recover from setbacks. Researchers at the VCU TBI Model Systems program developed a

Possible Treatment for Memory Issues
For people who’ve had a traumatic brain injury (TBI), memory issues can be not only troubling but disabling. They often have trouble remembering what they

Tips for Managing Anxiety
When we feel anxious, we tend to breathe faster. New research shows breathwork exercises help us consciously slow down our breathing, which can positively affect

Coma or Consciousness?
In an article about consciousness, Colin McGinn writes: “The causes of consciousness in the brain are not discoverable by inspecting the brain, and introspection cannot

Stephanie Grana Selected into the Virginia Lawyers Weekly Circle of Excellence
This January, Virginia Lawyers Weekly (VLW) announced the lawyers selected for the Class of 2024 “Influential Women of Law” and those chosen as the inaugural
Ambiguous Loss
At a recent speaking event to a group whom I know has provided therapy to persons with brain injury and their families, when asked how