Posts Tagged ‘brain injury’
The Mind of the Tiger Lady – The Upper Cut of Life
I could remember 1993 living in Los Angeles, California. Lost and confused about my life. Where the hell am I leading myself? I had nowhere to go and the only thing was to continue being a mortician aid and entering the hard-core boxing gym in south central Los Angeles and the challenge was to walk in [...]
Surviving a major TBI, coma, and relearning life ALL OVER!
Living our lives, well we REALLY DON’T KNOW what’s on the other side… People might think, as I did, but the other side could mean changing your life forever….. What do I mean by this? Picture yourself waking up, going to work, during that time you have a small accident (and not thinking much of it), continue [...]
Traumatic Brain Injury and the Bully
Hi, and welcome back to Second Chance to Live. I am glad to see you decided to stop by and visit with me. As a traumatic brain injury survivor I struggle with a sense of inadequacy at times. At times I listen to messages that seem to challenge me for not being more than I [...]
Plasticity of the Human Brain
Plasticity of Human Brain Research University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) of commercial brain fitness program from Posit Science Corporation: practising simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy of short-term, or “working” visual memory. Folowing 10 hours of training, participants improved their perceptual abilities significantly (e.g., increased the accuracy of visual working memory by about [...]
