John Tiwald
Mar 22, 20192 min read
Barrow Neurological Institute's Domestic Violence Traumatic Brain Injury Program Offers Services
I recently heard about Barrow Neurological Institute's Domestic Violence Traumatic Brain Injury Program in Phoenix, and am impressed,...
John Tiwald
Mar 15, 20192 min read
As Sleep Improves, So Does An Injured Brain
By Jon Hamilton | NPR Health News For patients with serious brain injuries, there's a strong link between sleep patterns and recovery. A...
John Tiwald
Mar 1, 20197 min read
Service Dog Registries To Streamline Travel For Veterans With 'Invisible Injuries'
Adelina Lancianese | NPR Brett Simon, president and co-founder of K9s for Warriors organization, stands with his dog Lincoln at the...
John Tiwald
Feb 5, 20191 min read
Your Dazzling Brain - Understanding Pain
Pain is one of the marvelous mechanisms your brain uses t tell you to stop and take care of yourself - to pay attention. At its best, pain c
John Tiwald
Dec 10, 201814 min read
‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill
More than 200 interviews and thousands of pages of medical, social work and housing records reviewed by ProPublica and FRONTLINE, in collabo
John Tiwald
Nov 16, 20183 min read
Young Footballers’ Injuries More Common at Small Schools
Doubled risk compared with football teams from large schools By Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today SAN DIEGO — Size...
John Tiwald
Nov 14, 20181 min read
Journalist and Best-Selling Author Kurt Eichenwald is Interviewed About His Brain Injury
In a recent interview on Christiane Amanpour and Co.'s show (PBS 11-12-18) journalist and New York Times best-selling author Kurt Eichen
John Tiwald
Jan 2, 20186 min read
For Wounded Vets' Children, A Special Summer Week
In 2014, there were 1.8 million children in military families. Studies indicate that these children have higher risks than non-military chil
John Tiwald
Dec 20, 20173 min read
Brain Lesions May Explain Criminal Behavior
Brain lesions temporally associated with criminal behavior map to a common functional brain network involved in aspects of moral decision ma
John Tiwald
Oct 5, 20175 min read
Managing Head Trauma in Children
Exerpted from The New York Times | By Perri Klass, MD More than 30 years ago, my toddler stood up in his stroller, evading the various...
John Tiwald
Oct 1, 20175 min read
“What‘s it going to take to get help?”: Child with Brain Injury Shuffled through 5 York Schools in 5
After suffering a brain injury when he was four, this Markham boy has been shuffled through five different schools in the York Region...
John Tiwald
Aug 16, 20175 min read
Eye Movements May Be Key in Detecting Brain Injury, Concussion
Dr. Uzma Samadani, M.D., Ph.D. is paving the way for new eye-tracking diagnostic measures after a brain injury. By Amy Sellmer,...
