As introduced in yesterday’s blog, Captain Charles Myers, a British Physician authored a significant case study of three wounded soldiers with shell shock in the Lancet, the publication of the British Medical Society. See C.S. Myers, “A Contribution to the Study of Shell Shock” The Lancet, on February 13, 1915 page 316-320. Myers begins his ...
I owe my perception of the World War I literature on Shell Shock to a good friend’s academic pursuit of such topic while at Yale. The below quotes are from a paper discussing the dichotic treatment of shell shock as an emotional/organic injury in the novel: Return of the Soldier, by Rebecca West. Quoting from ...
The cause of suicide: “it’s all in the head.” That cliché is said typically about psychological problems. But the brain injury community likes to twist this cliché, with a tone of irony, pointing out that a brain injury, is also “in the head.” While our psyche is in our head – our brain’s structures, our ...
It was a confluence of many issues coming together at once last week, but the mental health of our Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans was all over the news. The Associated Press announced that active duty military suicides hit its highest level on record in 2007, 119 soldiers dead. See the AP story at: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MILITARY_SUICIDES?SITE=CADIU&SECTION;=HOME&TEMPLATE;=DEFAULT With ...
I have always called it the Defense of Misdirection. This year, is an election year, and I have an easier term for people to understand: SPIN. Spin is what defense attorney’s do. They spin everything, ignoring the obvious and coming up with some type of misdirection to disregard the diagnosis of treating doctors. The goal ...
Yesterday I commented on the intersection of news about Iraq War veterans and the death of an NFL player. Today, we focus more on the synergistic effect of the interplay between brain injury and emotional problems. It was reported in the April 19, 2008 edition of the Science Daily that one in five Iraq and ...
My internet news today had an intersecting of two recurring themes in the brain injury world, with that of an unexpected death of a former NFL player. The first theme is the difficulties retired NFL players have with disability. The second theme the degree of depression found in post Iraq war veterans. What does the ...
From our frequent contributor, Cindy: Hi Everyone,Just had a “cognitive workout” in the container garden today, and thought I’d share some of my adventures and problem-solving with you. While surfing the web, I came upon a gardening practice which I had never heard…growing tomatoes upside! There are supposedly many benefits of this: 1) better air ...
As a personal injury lawyer you learn early on that the biggest issue on almost everyone’s mind after a personal injury or other medical crisis is: how do we pay the medical bills? Until we have national health insurance, there will always be challenges for those who have a sudden influx of medical bills. What ...
Yesterday, a former client of mine, began this two part series on how to use the internet to help connect with those who were willing to assist her in accommodating her disability. Today, she addresses the question she ended yesterday’s blog with: What do I do so that my friends and neighbors don’t begin to ...