Dr. Daniel Avesar, PhD is a brain injury survivor and advocate dedicated to raising awareness and promoting understanding of brain injury. When he was 18 years old (10/11/1999), during the third week of his undergraduate studies, Daniel sustained a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) that required a craniotomy of the right side of his skull. That marked the beginning of a seven-year journey to rebuild cognition, regain his inner self, and address vision challenges, plus dealing with other problems like derealization and hyperacusis. Those experiences led him to study neuroscience, seeking to understand the profound changes he had undergone due to his TBI. Daniel earned a PhD in neurophysiology from Dartmouth College in 2013 and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Oregon in 2017. Since then has been interviewing brain injury survivors as well as researchers and clinicians to create free online content aimed at dispelling misconceptions and increasing public understanding about brain injury both from the “internal” and “external” perspectives. Dr. Avesar has two projects online, the Experiencing My Brain podcast which includes one on one discussion with brain injured people about their invisible problems, and the Building Brain Awareness talk series on YouTube, presentations from clinicians, researchers and brain injury services on what they are studying and working on for brain injury.
Find Daniel at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61574995580688
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@buildingbrainawarness2139
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-avesar-phd-54704730/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/experiencing-my-brain/id1596998070,
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