There is no more important issue for the diagnosis and determination of prognosis after a brain injury than the length and severity of amnesia. Amnesia is defined as the loss of memory for events, both before and after the accident. Loss of memory for events before the accident is called..
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In yesterday’s blog, I talked about the exception to my skepticism about miracle recoveries, years post a coma causing event. The exception is in the cases of “locked in syndrome”. The National Institute of Health contains this definition of Locked-Iin Syndrome: What is Locked-In Syndrome?_Locked-in syndrome is a rare neurological..
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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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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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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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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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By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 One of the absolute cornerstone’s to my belief system as a brain injury advocate, is that brain damage is not an immediate occurrence but part of a complex and multi-factorial process that occurs not just over minutes, but as much as 24-72..
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I once started a lecture with this joke: the most important thing to being a brain injury lawyer, is learning how to type neuro. It sometimes feels to me, and I am sure as often to the readers of my various web pages, that there are just too many specialities..
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I first wrote the an essay on this topic in 1997, and my list has remained mostly unchanged since: https://tbilaw.com/choosing-a-brain-injury-attorney.html I still think these questions which are listed below are good questions to start with. But of course, one could argue that those questions were self serving then, as I..
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I got this email exchange this week, about something I wrote more than a decade ago: Is this a typo? http://www.waiting.com/recoveryexpect.html A so-called “mild” brain injury may result in substantial deficits which may affect a person’s life permanently, while a person who has suffered a “severe” brain injury may be..
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