Impaired facial affect recognition appears to be a significant problem for survivors of traumatic brain injury. These difficulties can be partially attributed to problems with emotion perception. Mounting scientific evidence shows facial affect recognition to be particularly difficult after TBI. Facial affect recognition is achieved by interpreting important facial features and processing one’s own emotions. [...]

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“Aquired Brain Injury” was produced by Dean Powers, a Rehabilitation Consultant and Vocational Expert. The video follows a Q&A format, documenting the feedback of six suvivors with varying degrees of brain injury. It looks at the impact of brain injury on these individuals’ personal and professional lives, including the barriers to employment they have faced.

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Christina MacEachern was injured on September 12th, 2005, when her head came into contact with a semi-trailer truck. She suffered severe bi-frontal lobe injuries. A 60-minute video of Christina (post-injury) was produced by Shawn Serdar of Pacific Producers Group and was shown during Christina’s trial. This 13 minute, edited version of the video has kindly [...]

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