On Point with Tom Ashbrook on May 12th featured a show called “New Ways To Curb Distracted Driving.” So many people today engage in texting while driving. In 2014, 3,200 were killed in accidents involving distracted drivers. This is 10 percent of all traffic fatalities. In addition, 430,000 people are injured every year in distracted(…)
By Jennifer Ball When Terry Goguen found himself driving and drifting into the other lane while on his phone, it hit him that he had to do something to stop this problem of distracted driving. “Nowadays you see people driving and most of them have their heads down,” Goguen said. A Middlebury College senior, Goguen,(…)
I am in Texas today for depositions in a major brain injury case involving a collision between a semi truck and a small pickup. I chose to drive because that is often what I do. On my way last night, I drove by the scene of what looked to be a horrific semi accident. Below(…)
What we learned from a Virginia Tech Distracted Driving Study By Jennifer Ball In a distracted driving study out of Virginia Tech study this year, researchers analyzed 3,000 vehicles using cameras and data-acquisition software. The distracted driving study found that more than half of the drivers were engaged in some secondary task while driving. But(…)
Study finds microcephaly related to Zika virus in Brazil Zika virus has been linked to microcephaly, a birth defect where the baby is born with an abnormally small head, due to abnormal brain development. A study entitled “Zika and the Risk of Microcephaly” says that thousands of cases of microcephaly are potentially linked to Zika(…)
By Jennifer Ball Children with language barriers and limited income face more challenges in receiving brain injury care, according to a new study in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation. The study, entitled “Availability of Outpatient Rehabilitation Services for Children After Traumatic Brain Injury: Differences by Language and Insurance Status,” analyzed data from(…)
Michigan helmet law currently allows motorcycle riders and passengers over the age of 21 to decide for themselves whether or not they will wear a motorcycle helmet. We are here to help those with brain injuries. Thus, it is not hard to guess how we feel about a law that allows people who have never(…)
Author Janelle Breese-Biagioni wrote that 90 percent of marriages could be saved after brain injury with proper support for families after the injury. She says in her blog stated that 90 percent of marriages end in divorce after brain injury. She boldly declared that all of these marriages could be saved if the family receives(…)
One area of interest of many people is how to grow your brain. Through neuroplasticity, can we actually make ourselves smarter, or grow our brain, or at the minimum, maximize our brain’s potential? You probably heard the statistic that we only use ten percent of our brain. Although now this is considered largely an urban(…)
A Michigan boy’s life was saved by a bicycle helmet. 12-year-old Zach Hall was riding his bike to a convenience store near his grandparents’ house to buy worms for fishing, according to Wood TV. He stopped at the stop sign and proceeded into the intersection. He said he didn’t see the truck coming around the(…)