All posts by Author

Sport Concussion Guidelines Should Apply to Real World Brain Injury

Posted on September 11th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Continuing with our football quarterback analogy about the difference between confusion and amnesia, lets also focus on another material area where the brain injured athlete gets better diagnostic methods directed towards them than the average member of the public: serial follow-up exams. A little over a decade ago, the Brain..
Read more

Brain Injury – Amnesia and Confusion – A Probing Inquiry is Needed

Posted on September 11th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

This series of blogs started with the quarterback analogy, discussing all of the things an amnestic but not confused quarterback had to do on every play. If we were to design a protocol to determine whether a quarterback was amnestic of the events of a game, any sports writer could..
Read more

Brain Injury – Amnesia and Confusion – An Important Distinction

Posted on September 10th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

My last blog concluded with the statement that amnesia and confusion are not the same thing. One does not have to be confused to be amnestic for an event. Why is this distinction important? Because amnesia, the presence and length of it is the single most important predictor of outcome..
Read more

Brain Injury – Confusion and Amnesia – Not the Same Thing

Posted on September 9th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

I began both of my last two speeches holding a nerf football, asking the question of those in the audience, what it was an NFL quarterback did before he snapped the football. It took a couple of minutes each time, but among the answers were the following: Listened for the..
Read more

Back from Summer Recess

Posted on September 4th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Blogging is one of those job responsibilities that never seem to quit and it is so easy to get behind on. Well, Congress is back soon, the kids are in school, and I better get back to this job as well. It has been an important summer for my brain..
Read more

RNC chairman attacks Obama on health care

Posted on July 20th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Could this be a sign of real progress on meaningful healthcare reform, that the Republican’s are now attacking the plan and that the Democrats seem to be willing to go ahead for what is in the best interest of the people, without bi-partisan support? The Democrats have the votes, if..
Read more

Obama shifts into campaign mode on health care

Posted on July 15th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

The healthcare industry is spending over a million dollars a day in Washington to lobby Congress on proposals for health insurance reform. It appears that lobbying is working, that the insurance companies have bought themselves another Congress. It really isn’t Obama’s fault and the pressure on him to get something..
Read more

BIA-USA Urges Congress to Increase Funding for TBI Programs

Posted on July 13th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

From the Brain Injury Association of the U.S.:Urge Congress to Increase Funding for TBI Programs!The Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education begins consideration of the FY10 funding bill today! Over the next few days, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education..
Read more

Shooting unveils very different sides of McNair

Posted on July 6th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

It is an odd intersection of themes, an NFL quarterback, death and adultery. Adultery seemingly in every public figure story of late and now a revered NFL quarterback is caught in the cross hairs of such controversy, but found dead as a consequence. A week of digging on Michael Jackson’s..
Read more

Billy Mays Death – Heart Attack?

Posted on June 29th, 2009 · Posted in Brain Injury

Speculation has run rampant for the last couple of days as to whether Billy Mays died from injuries he suffered in a flight incident. The below story may clear up that confusion, but until a full investigation is done, one should remain skeptical. Attorney Gordon Johnson Date: 6/29/2009 1:43 PM..
Read more