Making Headway Winter 2025

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A New Frontier in Brain Regeneration Research

For most of modern medical history, the brain has been viewed as incapable of regeneration. While skin, bone, and even parts of the liver can regenerate after injury, damage to the brain—whether due to stroke, traumatic brain injury (TBI), or neurodegenerative disease—has long been considered largely irreversible.

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DLF Announces Exciting Online Concert

The DLF is very pleased to announce its first online concert to be streamed on the evening of March 28th, 2026 (starting 8:00 P.M. Eastern). The concert will feature a variety of wonderful musical performers from across the country

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Marchell’s Story

Marchell is an engaging and energetic middle-aged man who was enthusiastic about being interviewed for the DLF newsletter. He is an activist working to promote the rights and well-being of persons in the brain injury community, with a particular emphasis on helping persons with brain injury who are incarcerated or have been released from prison.

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What Does “Ambiguous Loss” Mean?

My daughter, currently nearing completion of a graduate program in counselling, recently introduced me to the term “ambiguous loss”. This term applies to a loss that is unclear and lacks certainty, leaving family members and close friends feeling stuck because it is so difficult to mourn or find closure.