They are also three times more likely to be asked to move funds into or from their bank accounts by a third party – and less protective of their personal data. A study, commissioned by think-tank Demos and fraud prevention group Cifas, has analysed fraud risk associated with capacity-limiting conditions, including brain injury. It shows that people with cognitive impairments are three times more likely to receive requests to move money through their accounts versus healthy respondents.

According to a study, having higher pre-injury intelligence and being younger can improve cognitive recovery two to five years after a mild to severe TBI. The study, featuring healthy and TBI-affected sample groups, saw participants subjected to four intelligence tests: The National Adult Reading Test (NART), Digit Symbol Coding Task (DSCT), Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT) and Trail Making Test (TMT). Of the TBI survivors, those who were younger, had a shorter period of post-traumatic amnesia and a higher premorbid IQ all performed relatively strongly.

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