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What Is Cognitive Reserve and How Does It Affect Outcome After TBI?

Jordan Grafman, PhD
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Dr. Jordan Grafman talks about how people who had a higher level of skills, interests, and motivation before a brain injury tend to have a better outcome than those who did not.

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Posted on BrainLine February 11, 2013.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Justin Rhodes, and Erica Queen, BrainLine.