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Study sheds light on how concussion can affect income, employment
New study reveals “massive” impact of concussions on NZ incomes and employment (26 September 2024)
A new link has been discovered between rugby players who've suffered multiple concussions and neurodegenerative conditions (18 July 2024)
Study brings call for greater care around concussions (22 July 2024)
Understanding the warning signs from sporting head injuries (22 July 2024)
- Nelson Mail
- Taranaki Daily News
- Timaru Herald
- The Post
- Southland Times
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- The Press
- Waikato Times
- Manawatu Standard
- Marlborough Express
Head knock concerns (19 Jul 2024)
- Experts say the 'invisible disability' of brain injuries is a 'silent epidemic' (Article quoting Alice Theadom, NZHerald, 27 October 2022)
- PhD Candidate’s Renata Bastos Gottgtroy and Anja Zoellner featured on TVNZ Breakfast discussing Renata’s concussion research and Anja’s concussion journey (TVNZ Breakfast, 17 October 2022)
- Huge concern as research shows quarter of concussion patients waiting months for treatment (Article featuring Renata Bastos Gottgtroy, Newshub, 17 October 2022)
- NZ Rugby gets first results in study that could link rugby to increased brain disease, deaths over decades (Article quoting Patria Hume, stuff.co.nz, 18 September 2022)
- People with concussions wait 60 days on average for help, says brain expert (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff , 13 May 2022)
- 'We could have been killed': Moment car smashes through school doors into family caught on camera (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 12 May 2022)
- 'Domestic violence survivors 'left hanging' without support for brain injuries' (Article quoting Magdalena Durrant, Stuff, 12 March 2022)
- 'The CTE sports wall of denial is crumbling' (Article mentioning Patria Hume, Dylan Clever / The Bounce , 4 March 2022)
- 'Rugby's bubbling beer conundrum' (Article quoting Patria Hume, Dylan Cleaver / The Bounce, 28 January 2022)
- 'Rugby: Retired rugby players twice as likely to be involved in hazardous levels of drinking, study finds' (Article quoting Patria Hume, Newshub, 28 January 2022)
- Life-changing brain injuries in domestic violence survivors going unrecognised (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 8 January 2022)
- 'Mild' injuries can change careers: How I'm adapting to life after a blow to the head (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 27 September 2020)
- Married at First Sight, Bachelor NZ star Bel Clarke suffers traumatic brain injury while walking her dog (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 3 September 2020)
- Kiwis using helmets wrong, overestimate how much protection they're getting - study (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Newshub, 5 June 2020)
- Helmets are essential, but they're no panacea when it comes to concussion (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Horsetalk, 5 June 2020)
- Most Kiwis don't know helmets can't fully protect against concussion, study finds (Article quoting Alice Theadon, Newshub, 5 June 2020)
- How a car crash and brain injury changed an Auckland woman's life for the better (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 15 March, 2020)
- Recovering from concussion: Learning to live again after a brain injury (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Stuff, 26 January 2020)
- Kiwi research shows women take longer to recover from concussions than men (Article quoting Alice Theadom, Newshub, 9 October 2019)
- The Check Up (TVNZ On Demand) (S1 E6 features Alice Theadom, originally aired on Monday 13 August 2019)
- Recovery from concussion in children (Nicola Starkey interviewed on RNZ Nine To Noon, 4 July 2019)
- Launch of the TBI Network (Alice Theadom interviewed on RNZ Nine To Noon, 21 May 2019)
- "Worse than hell" - life behind bars with a traumatic brain injury (Alice Theadom interviewed on NewsHub, 6 May 2018)
- Mild concussions can impact daily function up to four years on, new research shows (Article featuring Alice Theadom, Stuff.co.nz, 3 February 2018)
- Traumatic brain injury and dementia (Alice Theadom interviewed on Radio New Zealand, 1 February 2018)
- Professor Gail Pacheco talks about the discovery of a link between a single mTBi and concussion (Newstalk ZB)
- Professor Alice Theadom talks about a new paper on the link between concussion and increased criminal activity (Newstalk ZB, 4 May 2023)
- Research article on TBIN research covered in NZ Doctor. (NZ Doctor, 3 May 2023)
- Professor Alice Theadom mentioned in article by Stuff on link between concussion and criminal activity (stuff.co.nz, 6 May 2023)
- Professor Alice Theadom speaks on Morning Report about new study on mild brain injury and link to criminal behaviour in later life. (RNZ, 3 May 2023)
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