It is easier to do concussion research on male sports injuries. There is funding, political will and interest. But these researchers aren’t concerned with their work being simple. They are determined to wade into the complex to get this research off the ground.

She’s decided to leave, maybe this time for good. She is starting over. But overwhelmed and without the lens of traumatic brain injury, does she have hope of being helped and understood?

Bright lights and ambient noises create fuzzy thinking and fatigue. Personality changes, anger and depression. Hear survivors speak their truth as Lin Haag educates about traumatic brain injury and post concussive symptoms.

To a police officer she can appear drunk and combative. To a family court judge she’s disorganized and unfit. In criminal court her trauma goes unrecognized as she sits near the man who tried to take her life.

Only a handful of diligent researchers are looking at the intersection of intimate partner violence and traumatic brain injury. Listen as they shatter the silo approach and collaborate to make headway from the ground up.