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September 2025 Amy Stacey Curtis
Content Warning: Suicidal Ideation A switch flipped in my brain. One moment I was thinking about which movie to watch, and the next, I was seeing in my head, horrific moving images of me ending my life, over and over. I couldn’t flip the switch back, not to movie ideas, not to anything else, and...
August 2025 James Camp
“Still Standing”: A Life Reclaimed After Brain Injury and Setbacks By James Camp, Jr. I’ve never thought of myself as someone special. If anything, my story is probably like a lot of others—some good, some bad, and some things I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I was raised in a working-class family, with a deep connection...
July 2025 Melody Bonnema
In 2008, I was in Pennsylvania visiting my family. I was in a car accident that changed my life forever. Three of us were riding back from the Poconos. My father was driving. I was in the passenger seat and Aunt Gracie was in the back. It was a T-bone accident, and I was at...
Brain Injury Awareness Month 2025: Heroes Don’t Always Wear Capes
During this year’s Awareness Month, thousands of volunteers joined our efforts to promote brain injury awareness and education by participating in a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, soliciting donations while sharing information about the complex nature of brain injury.
June 2025 Dwight Lingley
I was born in Bangor, Maine. I lived with my grandparents right next to my parents’ house. I was a good student and had a lot of friends, but I was a pretty anxious kid. For example, I would feel sick before every sports game that I played in. As a teen my grandmother passed...
May 2025 Carol Rohl
Carol Rohl Eleven years post-stroke, good friend and musician from Australia, Penny Davies, visited us in Maine. She wrote a beautiful poem about my recovery, based on the concept of starting each day with a pile of quarters energy-wise. By the end of the day, they would be gone and I had to be very smart...
April 2025 Larry Marquis
I wrote my story in October of 2015 and again in October of 2022 and now here is where I am today. It all started in 2005. We had just gotten engaged and I was noticing a flashing in the lower left-hand corner of my eyes, known as vision seizures. My PCP sent me for...
2025 Maine Resource Fair
2025 BIAA-ME Brain Injury Resource Fair Thursday, March 20, 2025, 12-4 pm Augusta Armory 179 Western Ave, Augusta, ME
BIAA Announces 2025 Berrol and Caveness Award Recipients
Fairfax, VA – The Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) has announced the recipients of the annual BIAA Awards Program, which recognizes outstanding contributions to clinical service and research in brain injury. Owen Z. Perlman, M.D., is the recipient of the 2025 Sheldon Berrol, M.D., Clinical Service Award, and Risa Nakase-Richardson, Ph.D., FACRM, FNAN, is...
March 2025 Blythe Edwards
I’ve started writing this opening paragraph about a dozen times now. I just can’t seem to find the way to tell my story. Maybe it’s because the brain is such a complicated organ that I struggle with the “gray matter” of it. This injury has touched almost every aspect of my life, and as a...
2025 Public Perceptions of Brain Injury Report
The Brain Injury Association of America partnered with The Harris Poll to conduct a survey of US adults about their awareness of brain injury.
February 2025 Marc Landry
Ten years ago, my health started gradually deteriorating. I knew something was wrong. After visiting my PCP and other Drs, I was eventually told all my blood work was fine and they couldn’t find a problem. The problem was, I was feeling quite lousy every day, and it wasn’t due to stress, as several of...