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SUPPORT AS PEER (18-55 YEAR OLD, HIGH COGNITIVE RESERVE) TBI SURVIVORS

LIKE OWN RETURN
Stayed involved
→Overcome TAUOPATHY
Thru BrainInjuryCare,ProjectManagement,PeerSupport

THIS→Stop TAU in hippocampus
LINK Memory→Task→Action
USE THIS THRU 'COGNITIVE RESERVE'!

FOR ME
After myTBI→No memory PreAccidentLoss&MakingNew
→But HIGHER CR help RELEARN memory→LINK
→want to help 18-55 year old Peers


COGNITIVE RESERVE (CR), term used to tell the ways the mind can use to compensate for damage to their brain, now popular for seniors&their caregivers,esp cos of connection to one of the biggest issues of modern aging:Dementia

Research shows that people with solid stores of CR, less likely to exhibit the classic signs of dementia—short-term memory loss, difficulty multitasking—brain scans show mental damage
→CR effectively makes the mind stronger and nimble, allows for ways to compensate for disease-related loss

Finding from Green (2013)
http://www.uhn.ca/corporate/News/PressReleases/Pages/TR_GreenRobin_ChronicTBI.aspx

So to counter the on-going damage or atrophy
→The inflammation,delayed programmed cell death&excessive build up of TAU affectsHealthy nearby cells
→Damaged tissue disconnects brain's HealthyAreas,causing those under-stimulated areas→die

CR COUNTER PROGRESSIVE DETERIORATION
MoreAbleSurvivors higherCR, can handle more pathology
→hB! support Educated peers

GreaterABILITY, less LOSS→me Peer

ESP LINK MEMORIES
→CRbyEducation→UseLink→Recall→DoTasks
CR→way to look at brain's ability to restore pathology

Higher CR→retrace steps→build Links→use(RE)LEARNING
→KEY IS EXERCISE→HELPS COGNITIVE ABILITIES

Active survivor of severeTBI(March1988), help other of a higher cognitive reserve:
→learn, communicate→rebuild their dialogue-,memory-&task-doing abilities→Employment

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TraumaticBrainInjury Peer-supportr based in Edinburgh Lothian
ebmv74arthi@googlemail.com