“Brain injury is a process, not an event.” That one phrase has guided my advocacy with respect to concussion as much as any one thing. The author? Thomas Gennarelli, M.D. I am not sure when the first time he said it, but one such place he says it is the..
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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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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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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..
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