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Acquired Brain Injury Survivors of Southeast Louisiana

Acquired Brain Injury Survivors (ABIS) of Southeast Louisiana is a non-profit organization formed in 1996.  Our goal is to provide a comfortable arena for those who have brain injuries, as well as their family members. ABIS is dedicated to providing assistance through peer support and encouragement, social rehabilitation, information distribution, resource sharing, and therapeutic activities.  Current members are brain injured to varying degrees.  Origin of injury varies from brain cancer to traumatic injury due to collision and/or impact.   We want to help all brain-injured people in our community.

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NINDS Coma Information Page

A coma, sometimes also called persistent vegetative state, is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. Persistent vegetative state is not brain-death. An individual in a state of coma is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment...

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Neurology Now

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The Brain Matters

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Brain Trauma Foundation

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Brain Injury Recovery

In the United States, 5.3 million people are living with a TBI (traumatic brain injury) disability and over 5 million more Americans have acquired a brain injury through stroke or other causes.

In Louisiana, 90 out of every 100,000 residents have some form of a brain injury.

1,000 out of every 100,000 metro Orleans area residents acquire brain injuries.

Funds raised from the event will go to local brain injury education and recovery programs.

Brain Injury Conference

The 3rd Annual BIALA Conference is March 25 and 26, 2010 in Covington, Louisiana at the Greater Covington Center.

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