March 2008
Posts published in March 2008
Amnesia and Brain Injury
There is no more important issue for the diagnosis and determination of prognosis after a brain injury than the length and severity of amnesia. Amnesia is defined as the loss of memory for events, both before and after the accident. Loss of memory for events before the accident is called retrograde amnesia, i.e. similar to ...
Brain Injury and Locked-In Syndrome
In yesterday’s blog, I talked about the exception to my skepticism about miracle recoveries, years post a coma causing event. The exception is in the cases of “locked in syndrome”. The National Institute of Health contains this definition of Locked-Iin Syndrome: What is Locked-In Syndrome?_Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological disorder characterized by complete paralysis ...
Coma Help and Prognosis
My last blog contained an email from one of the charter contributors to http://waiting.com waiting.com was created to provide help for those who were waiting for someone to awake from a coma. With the creation of that page, the phone calls began to come into our office asking perhaps the most terrible question a person ...
From an Old Contributor to waiting.com
Attorney Johnson: Hello. Thank you very much for the tbi law website and for the waiting.com page. It helped me a great deal to be able to communicate to others that *there is hope*. I had forgotten about waiting.com until I asked the “high functioning” TBI online support group to which I belong for some ...
What is a Mild Brain Injury?
Head injuries (or otherwise called brain injuries) have been traditionally classified into three categories, mild, moderate and severe. Mild head injuries are typically brain injuries that do not involve loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes. Moderate involve significant loss of consciousness, but not do not involve extended coma. Severe brain injuries are those ...
Brain Injury and Malingering – A Dangerous Deceit
I hope you read past the title, because that was meant as a double entendre. The “Dangerous Deceit” is not that of the brain damaged person, but the deceit of the neuropsychologist who claims to be able to tell if someone is committing a fraud. At its core, to claim someone is a malingerer is ...
Brain Damage Not Malingering
Yesterday’s blog about my frustrations with the refusal of the Wikipedia editor to add my two cents on the interaction between organic injury and emotional problems is symptomatic of a problem that is persuasive throughout neuropsychology: the insurance companies and their alter ego, the defense bar, are polluting the science of brain injury. The toxic ...
Wikipedia and Concussion
I am a lawyer, not a doctor. I carry no academic credentials as an author on brain damage. Yet, brain damage is all I do. All of my cases involve brain damage, and I interact with doctors on both side of the forensic bar, day after day. I can’t prove that it is true, but ...
Brain Injury Awareness Month Wisconsin Lectures
Mr. Johnson, I will greatly appreciate your assistance in promoting advertisement of the Brain Awareness Weeks activities, that will take place next week at the Milwaukee Veterans Administration.We are organizing a few lectures on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). These lectures are scheduled in the context of outreach activities of the Milwaukee Chapter of the Society ...
Guidelines for Coma Management
One of the most difficult challenges in being a brain injury attorney and an advocate, is struggling with what to tell people when they call up and their loved one is in a coma. The Brain Injury Law Group is here to a significant degree, because that was one of the challenges we faced when ...
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