On the other hand, it is absolutely true that head trauma -- when severe -- can completely change a person's ability to think, feel and accurately perceive reality.
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The symptoms of vicarious trauma -- stress, social withdrawal, sensitization to televised violence -- are not enough to make people violent themselves, said Barbara Rothbaum, director of the Trauma and Anxiety Recovery Program at Emory Medical School.
At that point, Jones said he decided to donate his own brain to the Sports Legacy Institute -- which studies the link between sports and brain trauma -- for research upon his death.
The facility -- the largest public hospital in the city and a comprehensive trauma center -- was accommodating scores of patients Friday before it was emptied.
And other cynics would wonder about the timing of this initiative, what with a pending head trauma-related lawsuit from more than 4, 000 ex-players.
Anti-circumcisionists also believe the surgery can cause psychological trauma, affecting parent-child bonding.
Among that world-class core are several survivors of the 2007 trauma, notably fly-half Dan Carter, full-back Mils Muliaina, prop Tony Woodcock and flanker Richie McCaw, captain on that fateful day in Cardiff.
Alam and Tisherman aim to begin a 50-patient trial of the deep chill method at several urban trauma centers by year-end.
It will be a final tribute for a warrior spy-turned-surgeon who spent his post-war years pioneering heart research and emergency trauma care from New York to Hawaii.
Being forced to submit to a privacy-rending body scan or pat-down - unpleasant as it may be - is not likely to compare to the trauma that can flow from being forced to submit to showering or sharing a bunkroom with someone who finds you sexually attractive.
The individual, who lived 150, 000-200, 000 years ago, suffered blunt force trauma to the right temple - possibly from being hit with a projectile.
Numerous crises, from the collapse of Europe's exchange-rate mechanism in 1992-93 to the trauma in East Asia of recent months, make this clear.
Of the gun injuries, 50.4% required intensive care, compared with 19.3% for other trauma-related injuries.
Managers should gather company leaders for an open discussion on how to handle the trauma in-house, and then respond as a collective, says social psychologist C.
Eisenhower's men smoked a million packs of cigarettes a day, rising to 84 million packs for December 1944, the month of Hitler's doomed but trauma-imposing Bulge offensive.
It is understandable, in the awful trauma of post-communist disorientation and loss of national pride, that people should fend off the prospect of yet more self-abasing humiliation.
More broadly, there are changes in how psychology is taught and practiced in clinical settings, the business world, classrooms, and even with the military where trauma-protective resilience is now taught.
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Finally, at this time of national trauma when policy-makers are reviewing carefully the full array of financial policy tools and options to combat the scourge of international terrorism and those that aid and abet it, this comprehensive report should help stimulate a needed national debate.
Work began last year on an eight-year scheme to replace 200-year-old buildings and establish the hospital as the major trauma centre for the region.
Only by do doing can the nation be spared the sort of trauma that ensued after the Tonkin Gulf Resolution -- a trauma that, if anything, may be of vastly greater strategic significance if it winds up not just killing American soldiers but promoting a false peace in the Middle East and contributing to new, possibly mortal perils for our most important ally there, Israel.
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Success required having an array of equipment and people at the ready helicopter-rescue personnel, trauma surgeons, an experienced cardiac anesthesiologist and surgeon, bioengineering support staff, operating and critical-care nurses, intensivists.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which also can occur after a trauma, is different in that it is long-lasting and interferes with daily functioning.
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In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. Van Norman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.
In terms of your question: If the person you are thinking of was completely normal before the head trauma, had serious head trauma and has been out of touch with reality ever since -- which is really the definition of psychosis -- then it is extremely likely that the head trauma is the cause of the problem.
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Without properly-functioning adrenal glands the body cannot cope at times of stress - such as surgery, trauma or serious infection.
It lulls the country into a sense that it can avoid the trauma of a drawn-out political fight.
Those too showed signs of blunt force trauma, confirming inter-personal violence as well as a shin bone which had markings that were consistent with the removal of flesh from bone.
First, note that Sports Legacy Institute, Dr. Robert Cantu, and Mr. Chris Nowinski should be highly commended for their tireless efforts to further the research on correlations between competitive athletics, head trauma, and long-term health repercussions.
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She and her colleagues knew they were on to something, putting together a research letter called " Firearm Injuries of Children and Adolescents in 2 Colorado Trauma Centers: 2000-2008, " which was published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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