All posts tagged 'MRI'

Man In ‘Vegetative State’ Shows Consciousness In MRI

Posted on November 16th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Here is some people’s nightmare, straight out of a horror movie: You are fully aware and conscious, but you can’t communicate or move. That was the reaction of some people who posted comments to a story that CBC News wrote about a study involving a man in a so-called “vegetative..
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Brain Injury Coma Survivor Story: From College Girl to Coma Survivor

Posted on January 28th, 2011 · Posted in TBI Voices

Brain Injury Coma Survivor: Betty Part One – TBI Voices Begins its Second Story I have been doing brain injury representation for over 20 years, and there are times I swear that the condition is contagious.  Of course it isn’t, but  it is such a prolific tragedy, that as soon..
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Congress NFL Hearings: Dr. Benson on Susceptibility Weighted Imaging

Posted on January 7th, 2010 · Posted in Brain Injury

Randall Benson, M.D. on Neuroimaging Advances – SWI As I have stated here and elsewhere, diagnosing accidental concussions involves reconstructed evidence and the reliance on history from someone who likely has memory problems as to what happened, because they were concussed. In contrast to football or boxing concussions, real world..
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Guidelines for Coma Management

Posted on March 4th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

One of the most difficult challenges in being a brain injury attorney and an advocate, is struggling with what to tell people when they call up and their loved one is in a coma. The Brain Injury Law Group is here to a significant degree, because that was one of..
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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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