A Kelowna couple is researching the prevalence of brain injuries in women who have experienced violence from an intimate partner. Karen Mason is the executive director at Kelowna Women's Shelter and her partner, Paul van Donkelaar, is the director in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBC Okanagan, specializing in traumatic brain injury. "We don't have any form of formal assessment when women come in to Kelowna Women's Shelter to look for brain injury or concussion," Mason said. He compares this new study to information found in military research, which looks into soldiers who were exposed to improvised explosive devices. With files from the CBC's Daybreak SouthTo hear the full interview listen to audio labelled Kelowna researchers explore impact of concussions in women exposed to intimate partner violence

Source: CBC News March 07, 2017 01:07 UTC