{"id":8881,"date":"2024-05-22T10:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T14:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/?page_id=8881"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T19:37:07","slug":"june-cognitive-kit-ptsd-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/june-cognitive-kit-ptsd-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"June Cognitive Kit: PTSD Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our June Cognitive Kit! This month\u2019s theme is <\/span>PTSD Awareness Month<\/span><\/b> and we are sharing a book recommendation, crossword puzzle, writing prompt, coloring page, and some additional resources and further reading on PTSD.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if you\u2019d like to, please tag us on<\/span> social media<\/span><\/a> when you\u2019re finished. We\u2019d love to see your completed activities!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Book Recommendation:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery <\/span><\/i>by Sam Kean (2015)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike — strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents — and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims’ personalities. Parents suddenly couldn’t recognize their own children. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Some people couldn’t speak but could still sing.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>In <\/span>The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons<\/span><\/i>, Sam Kean travels through time with stories of neurological curiosities: phantom limbs, Siamese twin brains, viruses that eat patients’ memories, blind people who see through their tongues. He weaves these narratives together with prose that makes the pages fly by, to create a story of discovery that reaches back to the 1500s and the high-profile jousting accident that inspired this book’s title.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>With the lucid, masterful explanations and razor-sharp wit his fans have come to expect, Kean explores the brain’s secret passageways and recounts the forgotten tales of the ordinary people whose struggles, resilience, and deep humanity made neuroscience possible.\u201d<\/span> (Summary from <\/span>Amazon<\/span><\/a>)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>You can find <\/span>The Tale of the Dueling Neurosurgeons: The History of the Human Brain as Revealed by True Stories of Trauma, Madness, and Recovery<\/span><\/i> at your local library, or on <\/span>Amazon<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Barnes & Noble<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>more<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Coloring Page:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>You can download this month\u2019s PTSD Awareness Month coloring page here: June 2024 Cognitive Kit Coloring Page<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Writing Prompt:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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\u00a0<\/span>You can download this month\u2019s PTSD Awareness Month writing prompt here: June 2024 Cognitive Kit Writing Prompt<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Crossword Puzzle:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

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You can download this month\u2019s crossword puzzle here: June 2024 Cognitive Kit Crossword Puzzle<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

(Hint! The answers can be found in the featured studies and resources below.)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Update: You can now view the answers to the June crossword puzzle\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Featured Research Study:<\/span>
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Military service members can potentially be exposed to blast-related traumatic brain injuries, concussions and repetitive head impacts, and can suffer from PTSD. The UNITE Brain Bank has received donations from more than 200 military veterans and we are grateful for these donor families and the contribution they have made to our research.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To learn more about our research on veterans, take a look at the following paper:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

First Author: Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Senior Author: Ann McKee, MD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Take a look at this month\u2019s highlighted resources:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for PTSD<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

National Institute of Mental Health<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anxiety & Depression Association of America<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

PTSD Alliance<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you for completing June\u2019s Cognitive Kit activities! If you\u2019d like to see kits from other months, please click <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Welcome to our June Cognitive Kit! This month\u2019s theme is PTSD Awareness Month and we are sharing a book recommendation, crossword puzzle, writing prompt, coloring page, and some additional resources and further reading on PTSD.\u00a0\u00a0 Click on the files below to download and print any of the exercises and if you\u2019d like to, please tag […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20977,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9055,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8881\/revisions\/9055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}