All posts tagged 'memory problems'

Elizabeth-Memory and Cognitive Challenges After Brain Injury

Posted on December 6th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Elizabeth Part Six – Memory and Cognitive Challenges Elizabeth discusses her challenges related to memory and understanding. Listening is much harder than talking since it requires keeping focused and trying to understand what is being said. Often, something has to be said multiple times for her to finally understand it...
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Angela-Cognitive Challenges after Brain Injury

Posted on August 2nd, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

Part Ten discusses cognitive challenges: http://tbivoices.com/blog/uncategorized/stress-interacts-with-other-cognitive-challenges-after-tbi/   Stress can be extremely attentionally taxing and Angela’s memory problems increase whenever she is under stress.  She would think things were under control, until the stress kicked. Stress would almost paralyze her brain, even though she knew that she should know what to..
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Nap without guilt: It boosts sophisticated memory

Posted on November 24th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Date: 11/24/2008 By LAURAN NEERGAARDAP Medical Writer WASHINGTON (AP) _ Just in time for the holidays, some medical advice most people will like: Take a nap. Interrupting sleep seriously disrupts memory-making, compelling new research suggests. But on the flip side, taking a nap may boost a sophisticated kind of memory..
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