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Setting the International Standards for Acquired Brain Injury Providers

The Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) is an international, third party, independent, consultative accreditation process. It began in 1966 with the development of both medical and vocational rehabilitation standards. CARF’s two main jobs are to develop and revise state of the art standards representing programs in health and human services. The second job is to apply the standards in a peer review, on-site survey process. [full story]

Neuropsychological Challenges of Assessment of Spanish Speaking Patients

Traditionally, the neuropsychological clinical practice has been associated with usage of instruments for assessment. Such instruments could be divided in two main groups: batteries or tests for assessment of specific areas or cognitive aspects and procedures of clinical evaluation. On the bases of the first of mentioned groups it is possible to found psychometric assessment which we can call as quantitative approach (Reitan & Wolfson, 1993; Benson & Ardila, 1996). [full story]

What About the Other Half?: Women with Brain Injury

It was with great excitement that a group of us joined to contribute to a Brain Injury Professional issue (the official publication of the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS)). This was in the early spring of 2006. We felt like pioneers, raising an issue oft discussed, with rumors aplenty, but with no solid research or literature. We shared a personal story, wrote about sexuality and health concerns of women living with traumatic brain injury (TBI). [full story]

Post-Traumatic Epilepsy: from Trauma to Therapy

Traumatic brain injury (TBI)  poses a common and well-recognized risk of developing epilepsy.for over a million people in the United States who experience a TBI each year (Langlois et al., 2006). The resulting neurological deficits from open and closed head injury range in severity: from severe paralysis and major mental impairment to a high incidence of behavioral disturbances or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). [full story]

Articles of Note

In order to keep IBIA members apprised of current brain injury literature, NTL editors and editorial board members have prepared a list of recently published articles that may be of interest. [full story]