Gabrielle Giffords’ recovery and Cognitive Rehab Insurance Coverage Gap

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 11, 2011

Gif­fords’ recov­ery renews focus on cov­er­age gap for vet­er­ans (Mia­mi Her­ald): — “Doc­tors and reha­bil­i­ta­tion spe­cial­ists have learned a great deal from the treat­ment of trau­mat­ic brain injuries in com­bat vet­er­ans of Iraq and Afghanistan. One in five vet­er­ans of those wars has suf­fered some form of trau­mat­ic brain injury, most com­mon­ly con­cus­sions from road­side bombs.”…

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Bob Woodruff Foundation for TBI survivors

By Alvaro Fernandez | December 17, 2008

Sev­er­al read­ers, after enjoy­ing my inter­view with Lee Woodruff on the Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion and help­ing Trau­mat­ic Brain Injury sur­vivors, asked for the address of the Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion, in order to send a dona­tion via check. Here is the right address: Bob Woodruff Foun­da­tion PO Box 955 Bris­tow, VA 20136 Thank you for your gen­eros­i­ty! Inter­view with…

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Update: Work as a Brain Fitness Program

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 16, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. There is one type of “brain fit­ness pro­gram” which is not only free but also pays you back. You guessed it,…

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Lee Woodruff: the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and You, can help Traumatic Brain Injury survivors

By Alvaro Fernandez | September 10, 2008 |

You have may have seen a few weeks ago the inter­view between for­mer US pres­i­den­tial con­tender John Edwards and reporter Bob Woodruff. All the result­ing media cov­er­age cen­tered on Edwards’ dec­la­ra­tions. How­ev­er, there is some­thing much more remark­able that sur­faced at that inter­view: Bob Woodruff’s spec­tac­u­lar recov­ery. This is the same reporter who suf­fered a…

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Update: Major Implications from Brain Research

By Alvaro Fernandez | August 29, 2008

Here you have the twice-a-month newslet­ter with our most pop­u­lar blog posts. Please remem­ber that you can sub­scribe to receive this Newslet­ter by email, sim­ply by sub­mit­ting your email at the top of this page. Major Impli­ca­tions from Brain Research Should Social-Emo­­tion­al Learn­ing Be Part of Aca­d­e­m­ic Cur­ricu­lum?: It is clear by now that our brains…

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