All posts tagged 'Health Brain Damage is Severe in Any Form'

Bicycle Helmet-Wearing Former NFL Quarterback Spared Head Injury

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

If you think wearing a bicycle helmet is for wimps, think again. Joey Harrington, a 33 year old former National Football League quarterback, was struck from behind by a driver of an SUV while riding a bike. On Sunday, July 31st, 2011, Harrington was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries including..
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Beaten Baseball Fan Suffered Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on August 2nd, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Bryan Stow, 42, a San Francisco paramedic, who was attacked by two suspects on March 31st at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, last week has been upgraded from ‘critical’ to ‘serious’ condition but his doctors say they remain “extremely cautious about interpreting his progress”. Stow is able to open his..
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Military, Football Concussions: Higher Risk Dementia

Posted on August 1st, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Alzheimer’s and Concussion Linked A new study introduced at the Alzheimer’s Association’s International Conference in July, suggest a strong link between head injuries in veterans and dementia. Soldiers who had suffered brain injury were two times more likely to develop the brain disorder. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43797462 Another study indicates an even more..
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Brain Injury and Malingering – A Dangerous Deceit

Posted on March 12th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Brain Damage Not Malingering

Posted on March 11th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Wikipedia and Concussion

Posted on March 7th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Brain Injury – TBI – Awareness Month

Posted on February 28th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

EDITORS NOTE: This press release is from the Brain Injury Association, circa 2008. For our primer on severe brain injury click here:  

Iraq Brain Injury Study: More Evidence On Process of Brain Injury

Posted on February 25th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 One of the absolute cornerstone’s to my belief system as a brain injury advocate, is that brain damage is not an immediate occurrence but part of a complex and multi-factorial process that occurs not just over minutes, but as much as 24-72..
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Iraq and Brain Damage Research

Posted on February 21st, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

One of the great advantages of working on challenging and complicated brain damage cases is that I get exposed to some of the leading neuro-scientists in the world. This year’s common denominator amongst those minds is that I know many professionals whose research is benefitting from the huge infusion of..
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Neuro Docs, the Difficulty in Keeping them Straight

Posted on February 20th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

I once started a lecture with this joke: the most important thing to being a brain injury lawyer, is learning how to type neuro. It sometimes feels to me, and I am sure as often to the readers of my various web pages, that there are just too many specialities..
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