Initiative warns of depression risk after brain injuries
When Dr. Lisa Thompson bounced back after suffering a brain injury in a moped accident in Bermuda, her family thought the worst was over. However, nearly six years later the pediatrician and mother of four committed suicide, shocking her loved ones. In the wake of Thompson's death two years ago, her family learned it is not unusual for traumatic brain injury victims to suffer depression. There are as many as 75 percent of such patients who suffer depression. Their suicide rate is as high as four times that of the general population, says Lance Trexler, program director of neurobehavioral services at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana in Indianapolis.
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