Every war has its after-war,” writes David Finkel, “depression, anxiety, nightmares, memory problems, personality changes, suicidal thoughts.” In the recent “ Thank You for Your Service ” and 2009’s “ The Good Soldiers,” Finkel shows us what he means by p ...
15 Feb 2014 - Jim Douglas
Lost in a moment: A traumatic brain injury on the job in Iraq turned journalist Bob Woodruff into an advocate for veterans experiencing homelessness [caption id="attachment_5757" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Na ...
1 Sep 2011 - Street Roots
Street Roots four-part series on brain injuries and homelessness You might say Nick Patton was born to fish. Literally born on a boat, Nick spent his earliest years living in orphanages along the Alaskan coastline. He ran away at the age of eight and qui ...
8 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Part IV: The good, the bad and the ugly: tracking brain injuries, health care for the homeless Street Roots is running an in-depth investigative series on Brain injuries and homelessness. Read “ Part I: All in their heads, Part II: Why Diagnosing traumati ...
7 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
Editorial: TBI research another tool in addressing homelessness In this edition, we run our second of three installments on traumatic brian injury, or TBI. In the first installment (All in their heads, May 27) Street Roots ran an in-depth feature piece in ...
22 Jun 2011 - Street Roots