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The North American Brain Injury Society is pleased to announce that it has received a record number of abstract submissions for the 2006 Brain Injury Conference of the Americas. The submission deadline has now past.

The North American Brain Injury Society is pleased to announce the formation of the second state affiliate of the Society, the North Dakota Brain Injury Society (NDBIS). NDBIS has been established to promote professional awareness, understanding and dissemination of information about brain injury through education and collaborative opportunities that advance the field of brain injury in North Dakota. NDBIS joins the Texas Brain Injury Society, which became the first affiliate of NABIS in May, 2005.

The International Brain Injury Association recently concluded the 5th World Congress on Brain Injury in Stockholm, Sweden. The Congress was extremely well attended with over 80 speakers from 30 countries presenting a broad and varied program. Abstracts of the presentations at the Congress have been published in a special supplement to IBIA’s official journal, Brain Injury, published by Taylor & Francis.

For the last 25 years, professionals in the fi eld of brain injury have struggled to defi ne a model of rehabilitation that addresses the holistic needs of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI), as well as their life long needs. In scientifi c literature, this subject has been discussed and deliberated to no conclusive end. Brain injury rehabilitation was not, and is not, traditional medicine. Life Care Planning is still a new and emerging fi eld. Yet, the core of brain injury rehabilitation and life care planning is the same as what we believe gives value to human existence, i.e.