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Almost half of homeless men had a previous brain injury

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A new study of homeless men found that 45% of the subjects surveyed had experienced traumatic brain injuries in the past.

?You could see how it would happen,? says Jane Topolovec-Vranic, a researcher in trauma and neurosurgery at St. Michael?s Hospital in Toronto. ?You have a concussion, and you can?t concentrate or focus. Their thinking abilities and personalities change. They can?t manage at work, and they may lose their job, and eventually lose their families. And then it?s a negative spiral? ? a spiral that, for the men in the study, ends up in a homeless shelter.

There?s no clear data on how prevalent TBI is in the general population, which makes it difficult to say for sure whether the homeless men in the study were injured at an unusually high rate.

Read the Time article here.

Full post as published by the 13th juror on June 05, 2014 (boomark / email).