All posts tagged 'american academy of neurology'

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..
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Evolution of the Definition of Concussion

Posted on April 1st, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

My last blog focuses the acute symptom of amnesia, the symptom that is now believed to be the most significant predictor of outcome after concussion. However, that is the modern way of looking at concussion, and unfortunately, not even all treatises or commentators on brain injury, are even willing to..
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