Papers on Traumatic brain injury/Concussion/Chronic traumatic encephalopathy/high school football/Falls in older adults:

• “Disability Caused by Minor Head Injury”, Rimel et al 1981

• “Disability in young people and adults one year after head injury: prospective cohort study”, Thornhill et al 2000

• “Traumatic brain injury among men in an urban homeless shelter: observational study of rates and mechanisms of injury”, Topolovec-Vranic et al 2014

• “Risk of suicide after a concussion”, Fralick et al 2016

• “Long-Term Outcomes Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood and Adolescence: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study of a Wide Range of Medical and Social Outcomes”, Sariaslan et al 2016a (media)

• “Triggers for Violent Criminality in Patients With Psychotic Disorders”, Sariaslan et al 2016b

• “Changes in Jail Admissions Before and After Traumatic Brain Injury”, Schwartz et al 2021

• “Employment Outcome Ten Years after Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective Cohort Study”, Grauwmeijer et al 2017

• “Association of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury With and Without Loss of Consciousness With Dementia in US Military Veterans”, Barnes et al 2018

• the CDC TBI Blue Book: “Traumatic Brain Injury In The United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations and Deaths 2002^–₄2006_20ya” (note the pervasiveness of falling as a cause of morbidity/mortality in all age groups)

• “Vietnam’s Neuroscientific Legacy”; “What If PTSD Is More Physical Than Psychological?”

• “Head injury and 25-year risk of dementia”, Schneider et al 2021

• Examples:

  • Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected, Miller2011

  • Sports-related traumatic brain injury: Concussions in American football

  • King Henry VIII: “The jousting accident that turned Henry VIII into a tyrant?”

  • Phineas Gage

  • Ernest Hemingway

  • Muhammad Ali

  • The Genius Factory (Plotz2006) includes a case of TBI destroying Robert Klark Graham’s son’s life: “…Another suffered a traumatic head injury as a boy, never quite recovered, and died in middle age after a difficult life.”

  • mathematician Stanislaw Ulam was, his close friend Gian-Carlo Rota notes in “The Lost Cafe” (from Indiscrete Thoughts, 1997_29ya)¹, apparently severely affected by a case of encephalitis in 1946_80ya despite making a “full” recovery—formerly a dandy, he became a sloppy reckless dresser, and while still highly creative, dependent on collaborators to fill out details and unable to focus for more than a few minutes despite having laser-like focus during the 1930s—even struggling to solve quadratic equations! The sadness of those who knew him, one suspects, must have been similar to that of Eugene Wigner upon finally meeting David Hilbert, who had developed pernicious anemia.²

  • Ron Porambo: talented youth boxer who became a reckless and ultimately criminal journalist

  • Steve Wozniak

  • “The Catastrophe: Spalding Gray’s brain injury”, Oliver Sacks 2015

  • Frankie Muniz can’t remember acting on Malcolm in the Middle due to TBIs/head injuries: 1, 2

  • Peter Meldrum

  • Kelly Catlin (“…She just felt like she couldn’t say no to everything that was asked of her and this was her only escape. She had suffered a concussion a few months ago and had not been the same mentally ever since.”)

  • “How (and Why) Athletes Go Broke: Recession or no recession, many NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball players have a penchant for losing most or all of their money. It doesn’t matter how much they make. And the ways they blow it are strikingly similar”

  • “A Natural Mother: The Story Of An Intellectually Disabled Woman Who Had Long Wanted A Child But Decided To Adopt A Doll Instead”

  • “The Final Five Percent”

  • “My Year of Concussions: The thud was thicker than I’d expected. It felt as if my head had been slammed in a car door”

  • “‘The Phantom of Ninth Street’: A Bon Vivant’s Lonely Decline—He lived every New Yorker’s dream life. And then it all slipped away”

  • “This Sledding Team Trained Hard for Gold in 2010_16ya. Some Members Regret It.”; “Getting Over Gold: Athletes and Mental Health”; “Two Wyoming Bobsledders. Two Horrific Brain Injuries. One Survivor. Travis Bell and Joe Sisson were close friends and rising stars in bobsled before crashes derailed their careers. Two decades later, one of them wonders why he thrived and his friend is gone.”

  • “Robert S. Trump, the President’s Younger Brother, Dies at 71”

  • Thousand Oaks shooting

  • Allan McDonald

  • April 2021 United States Capitol attack

  • Lady Randolph Churchill

  • “‘Don’t Write It Off’: Advice From Brain Injury Experts After Bob Saget’s Death”

  • Stuart Sutcliffe

  • Segal & Hur2022

  • 2018 Horizon Air Q400 incident

  • “‘My world is falling apart’: Former Lion Ryan Jones reveals dementia diagnosis aged 41”

  • “The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor: Sophia Papp emerged from an accident with her personality transformed. She tried to continue on as before—until she realized she could reinvent herself”

  • W. P. Kinsella

  • “Inventing Ivana Trump: Her Improbable Rise and Tragic Death”

  • Francisco J. Ayala

  • Evelyn M. Witkin

  • “Lost in Summerland: At the world’s largest gathering of psychics and mediums, two brothers confront a painful secret”

  • Louise Levy

  • Ryuzo Yanagimachi

  • “Jon Franklin, Pioneering Apostle of Literary Journalism, Dies at 82”

  • “John Walker, Tech Executive Who Popularized AutoCAD, Dies at 74: He avoided the spotlight, but he helped bring to market an explosively popular computer program that revolutionized the architecture and design industries”