If traumatic brain injury victims feel close to a higher power, it can help them rehabilitate, researchers at Wayne State University found. Brigid Waldron-Perrine, a graduate from Wayne State University, and Lisa J. Rapport, a WSU professor of psychology, says traumatic brain injury is a disruption of normal brain function after a head injury affecting 1.7 million Americans annually. Waldron-Perrine interviewed and completed neuropsychological tests on 88 individuals diagnosed with traumatic brain injury victims, most of whom were male, African American Christians. The study, published in "Rehabilitation Psychology," found most participants who reported higher levels of religious well-being -- a connection to a higher power -- had better emotional and physical rehabilitation outcomes.

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