How Does Intimate Partner Violence Impact Women's Brain Health?

Content Warning: discussions of partner violence and traumatic brain injury.

In this episode, Sidney and Rebecca sit down with Karen Mason and Dr. Paul van Donkelaar, co-founders of SOAR, or Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research - a multi-disciplinary research collaboration between University of British Columbia Okanagan and Kelowna Women’s Shelter. We talk about some of the many ways that intimate partner violence (IPV) can have long term impacts on women’s health - in particular the effects of traumatic brain injury.

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