All posts tagged 'brain injury'

Coma Help and Prognosis

Posted on March 23rd, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

My last blog contained an email from one of the charter contributors to http://waiting.com waiting.com was created to provide help for those who were waiting for someone to awake from a coma. With the creation of that page, the phone calls began to come into our office asking perhaps the..
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From an Old Contributor to waiting.com

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

Attorney Johnson: Hello. Thank you very much for the tbi law website and for the waiting.com page. It helped me a great deal to be able to communicate to others that *there is hope*. I had forgotten about waiting.com until I asked the “high functioning” TBI online support group to..
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What is a Mild Brain Injury?

Posted on March 19th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Head injuries (or otherwise called brain injuries) have been traditionally classified into three categories, mild, moderate and severe. Mild head injuries are typically brain injuries that do not involve loss of consciousness for more than 20 minutes. Moderate involve significant loss of consciousness, but not do not involve extended coma...
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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 Awareness Month Wisconsin Lectures

Posted on March 6th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

Mr. Johnson, I will greatly appreciate your assistance in promoting advertisement of the Brain Awareness Weeks activities, that will take place next week at the Milwaukee Veterans Administration.We are organizing a few lectures on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). These lectures are scheduled in the context of outreach activities of the..
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Innovations in Functional Imaging

Posted on February 29th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

A recent story from the Navy Times about a new concept in what is technically referred to as functional imaging. Functional imaging, such as a PET scan or fMRI, is an imaging technique which tells not whether there is a bleed or damage to a structure of the brain, but..
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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:  

Gronwall on Amnesia

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

I had an idea for today’s blog, which was to pick one of my favorite books, just randomly turn to a page, and write on such topic. The book I picked was Wrightson and Gronwall, Mild Head Injury, Oxford, 1999. Click here to order this book. This book is one..
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