Traumatic Brain Injury
Adolescents, TBI and Sexuality A very helpful article on sexuality in teens with TBI by Leslie Kahn (a .pdf download).
Australia's Brain Injury Rehab Unit at Liverpool Hospital "Sexuality after TBI: Issues and Strategies." An excellent online staff study module created by Dr. Grahme Simpson and Ruth Orchison. People working with TBI (both staff, families and friends) will find this to be very helpful.
Brainline.org If you are looking for a quality resource on all things TBI, you won't find anything better. This site so comprehensive, up to date and user friendly that you will want to spend hours reading the articles and watching the videos. Click on Intimate Relationships for articles and videos on TBI, sexuality, intimacy and relationships.
Comparing the Sexual Experiences of People with TBI and Without TBI This fascinating study was done by the Research and Training Center. It looks at the impact of TBI on the sexuality of both men and women.
Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury While not about TBI and sex, this overview from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke is about as thorough as it gets on TBI for laypeople as opposed to neurology nuts.
Overcoming Loneliness after Brain Injury A pamphlet from the Brain Injury Association of America about the kind of loneliness that people can experience following TBI. (a .pdf download).
Sexual Disinhibition Following TBI About as straightforward and down to earth as it gets. Beth and Larry have been married for 35 years. She had a serious brain injury at year 20. As they say, "Beth and I pointed out in our book about her personality change. The Beth I was married to for twenty years is not the same Beth I have been married to for the past seventeen years."
TBI and Sexuality Links Compiled By the Northeast Center This very helpful set of links on the impact of TBI on relationships and sexuality is from the people at Northeast Center for Special Care.
Sexual Difficulties After Traumatic Brain Injury and Ways to Deal With It--The Book This book is a very good resource for people needing a more medical or academic approach. I found the later chapters of this book to be quite excellent. Unfortunately, the first chapter reads like the "literature" search" section of a dissertation. The second half of the book is the valuable part.
Spinal Cord Injury and Undiagnosed Traumatic Brain Injury A thoughtful reminder about a tendency to forget considering TBI in persons with spinal cord injuries. This article includes the impact on relationships of TBI and SCI. It is by Stanley Ducharme, Ph.D., who is an expert in physical disability and rehabilitation.
Sports and TBI Concussions can leave players of contact sports with varying levels of TBI. While not about sex per se, this part of the excellent Brainline.org websites provides invaluable information about sports-related brain injuries.
Sports and Concussions--Interview with Leigh Steinberg We like to think of professional athletes as being impervious to brain injury. After all, it's professional football--not Afghanistan. Sports and Entertainment attorney Leigh Steinberg tells otherwise.
Using Sex Surrogates for People with Traumatic Brain Injury This is the abstract from a article by some of the top TBI researchers. You can tell these researchers aren't American, because we Americans tend to struggle with these kinds of helpful and common-sense solutions for people who have suffered disabilities.
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