NEUROPSYCHOLOGY IN AN UPHEAVAL Since 2014 Neuropsychologists in the United States have been engaged in a bitter battle over the proper way to address the…
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A successful trial lawyer for the past twenty years, attorney Steven (Woody) Igou, founder of florida-brain-injury.com, has, for the past twelve years focused his practice on cases involving traumatic brain injury.
The idea that a brain injury is a chronic disease has only been with us for approximately 10 years, since the seminal paper by Dr. Brent Masel. Prior to that, it was felt that only recovery occurred as time went by, without any chance of further decline. Many things have changed, however.
MILD TBI AND SUICIDE In April 2019, a heartbreaking New York Times article outlined the tragic suicide of Olympic cyclist Kelly Katlynn. She came from…
Here is a list some of the books that I have read this year, some outstanding some less so. In no particular order…
MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY (MRS) MRS is a new diagnostic tool to detect brain injury by looking at the levels of common brain chemicals after injury.…
LIFELONG IMPACT OF FOOTBALL Individuals with a history of contact sports, especially football, were studied. It revealed a threshold dose-response relationship between the exposure to…
Cannabis Helps PTSD There has been so much self-medication of sufferers from PTSD with marijuana that this discovery probably comes as no small surprise. The…
I recently gave a lecture at the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) speaking about what many perceive as a wide spread problem in our health care system involving TBI. The problem is that most radiologists in the United States have decided they do not want to be involved in TBI cases. Why do I say this and what does it mean?
In the last ten years it has become clear that high school, and even junior high school, sports such as football, soccer and lacrosse pose a danger of acute or chronic brain injuries. The autopsies of football players as young as 16 years-old have shown evidence of CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy).
It has become well known that our brains are not a fixed and static blob of material that we are born with. To the contrary, our brains are constantly changing, a notion called plasticity. For Example, the idea of “making a lawyer out of a student” after three years of a specific type of cognitive bombardment turns out to be truer than expected.