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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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New Jersey Brain Injury Seminar Designed for Familes

Posted on March 24, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey will offer its free educational session Brain Injury Basics for Families, on Thursday, April 8, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Hunterdon Medical Center, 2100 Wescott Drive, Flemington, New Jersey. The program, designed for family members of people who have sustained brain injuries, provides a presentation and forum for questions...

Glaucoma starts as an injury to the brain

Posted on March 20, 2010
New research suggests that blindness from glaucoma starts with an injury in the brain, not the eye. According to a team, headed by David Calkins, director of research at Vanderbilt University's Eye Institute, the disease - the leading cause of irreversible blindness - shows up first in the brain, not the eye...

Texas Brain Plasticity Conference

Posted on March 20, 2010
The University of Texas at Dallas is sponsoring a conference entitled Reprogramming The Human Brain to be be held in Dallas, Texas on April 8, 2010. The conference is intended to summarize basic cognitive factors and diseases that influence reasoning, describe the development of reasoning over childhood and adolescence, discuss how reasoning can be measured, explain the neural systems engaged in different forms of reasoning, recognize current ways to measure and improve reasoning in the field of education and examine the relation of neuroscience to ethics and the law...

Brain Injury Association of America Casts Their Vote In Favor of Health Care Report Legislation To Protect Brain Injury Survivors

Posted on March 19, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of America has urged all those concerned with the health and availability of medical services to survivors of traumatic brain injury to call their representatives and urge them to vote YES on the health care reform bill. Here is what the Brain Injury Association of America says: Tell your representative that you are a constituent that is concerned about health care reform...

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Tomorrow is Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capital Hill

Posted on March 16, 2010
Brain Injury Awareness Day 2010 Don?t forget that this year?s Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill is set to take place on March, 17, 2010. For those of you who are participating and have made appointments to speak with your members of Congress, there will be a ?home base? set up on the 4th floor of the Rayburn Building (rm...

Intracranial Pressure and Brain Monitoring Conference

Posted on March 16, 2010
The 14th annual conference on Intracranial Pressure (ICP) and Brain Monitoring has been announced and scheduled to be held from September 12-16 2010 in Tubingen, Germany. Deadline for abstract submission is May 10, 2010. Intracranial pressure is one of the most important parameters to monitor the health of the human brain...

Los Angeles Sports Concussion Conference

Posted on March 11, 2010
The National Summit on Sports Concussion is an annual event featuring prominent medical providers,scientists and clinicians who focus on preventing and treating sports concussion and orthopedic injuries. This year's conference is scheduled for Friday, May 14, 2010 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, Los Angeles, California...

Brain Injury World Conference

Posted on March 10, 2010
I'm on my way to Washington, D.C. today to participate in the 8th Annual Brain Injury World Conference sponsored by the International Brain Injury Association. With over 1,000 registered participants, I am honored that I was selected to do a presentation on Friday on the Medical-Legal Aspects of Traumatic Brain Injury...

List of Brain Injury Awareness Month Events

Posted on March 10, 2010
It's hard to keep track of all the events scheduled to take place in March across the United States in connection with Brain Injury Awareness Month. I just came across a great list of brain injury events put together by BrainLine. View the list of brain injury awareness events .

New York City Brain Injury Information Program

Posted on March 09, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of New York State (BIANYS) has announced an upcoming program to be held in New York City on March 20, 2010 as part of Brain Injury Awareness Month: ASK THE EXPERTS: A FORUM FOR PEOPLE WITH BRAIN INJURY AND THEIR FAMILIES The program features neuropsychologists and other health care professionals that will be discussing many aspects of traumatic brain injury including testing and available benefits...

Great Video on Promoting Use of Helmets to Prevent Brain Injury

Posted on March 08, 2010
Check out this video on You Tube, RideSmart sponsored by the Mission Children's Hospital. The video utilizes a peer-to-peer approach to teach middle and high school youth about how wearing a bicycle helmet can protect them from serious injuries (including brain injuries) and death...

Driver's Education Can Prevent Brain Injuries

Posted on March 07, 2010
With motor vehicle accidents being a major cause of traumatic brain injury in young adults, driver education and auto accident avoidance is of paramount concern. The Brain Injury Association of New Jersey has developed a free, drivers education curriculum and other helpful information on driver safety...

Brain Injury Awareness Fair--Washington, D.C.

Posted on March 06, 2010
March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. On March 17, 2010 a special brain injury awareness fair has been planned for Capitol Hill. Below is the schedule of events for the day: 10:00 AM ? 1:00 PM - Brain Injury Awareness Fair, First Floor Foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building 2:30 PM ? 4:00 PM - Briefing: ?From the Playground to the Pros: A Heads-Up on Concussion?, Capitol Visitors Center ? Congressional Meeting Room South 5:30 PM ? 7:30 PM - Reception Celebrating Brain Injury Awareness Month, First Floor Foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building Hope to see you...

Brain Injury: The invisible injury

Posted on March 02, 2010
Recognizing that a person who has sustained a traumatic brain injury may appear to be ?normal? at the scene of the trauma,. the Pentagon has instituted a new program for soldiers that have been exposed to road side blasts. These soldiers will be pulled out of combat for 24 hours and checked for a mild traumatic brain injury, even if they appear unhurt or say they are fine, according to a treatment policy the Pentagon is planning to release...

CDC Prepares Concussion Materials for Hockey and other Ice Sports.

Posted on February 28, 2010
On the ice, concussions can result from a fall, being struck in the head by the stick or puck, or from players colliding with the ice, with each other, or the boards (sides of a hockey rink). Recently, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) teamed up with USA Hockey to develop the "Heads Up: Concussion in Hockey" initiative to offer information about concussions to coaches, parents, and athletes involved in youth sports...

NFL Looks at Concussion History of Draft Hopefuls

Posted on February 27, 2010
NFL draft hopefuls are undergoing more thorough examinations for head injuries this week at the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis. All 329 invited players will be given a baseline brain activity exam, the ImPACT test, and will most likely face more questioning than previous draft classes about their concussion histories...

Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury subject of journal special edition

Posted on February 24, 2010
Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury, brain damage caused by the lack of sufficient amounts of oxygen is the subject of an entire special issue of NeuroRehabilitation: An International Journal (NRE). We frequently see the devastating brain damage caused by the lack of oxygen to the brain in medical malpractice cases including anesthesia errors, surgical errors causing massive bleeding and in emergency rooms where improper diagnoses are frequently made...

Carbon Monoxide Detectors Become Mandatory in New York Today

Posted on February 23, 2010
Amanda's Law, signed into law in August 2009, takes effect today. Amanda's Law mandates the installation of carbon monoxide (CO) detectors in all homes in New York State. The law is named for 16-year-old Amanda Hansen of West Seneca, New York, who died on January 17, 2009, due to a carbon monoxide leak from a defective boiler while she was sleeping at a friend's house...

Ithaca, New York: Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group Forms

Posted on February 23, 2010
A new traumatic brain injury support group has been started in Ithaca, New York. The group's first meeting is this Wednesday from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church of Ithaca, 306 N. Aurora St. Subsequnet meetings will be held on the last Wednesday of each month...

Facilitated communication found to be ineffective in patients in minimal conscious state

Posted on February 21, 2010
The technique known as ?facilitated communication? in which a patient in a depressed state of consciousness supposedly directs the hand of a therapist who then types out the patient?s thoughts as been discredited by leading medical researchers. Last November a Belgian man who was in a comatose type state for almost two decades following an automobile accident was thought to be able to communicate using this technique...

NFL considers rule changes to reduce incidence of concussions

Posted on February 20, 2010
According to an article in today?s Washington Post, the NFL is considering rule changes that would reduce the head to head contact between players as a way of reducing the incidence of concussions in professional football. The rule change will be a subject of discussion between the players union and the league at upcoming meetings...

New test to determine if athletes have sustained a concussion

Posted on February 19, 2010
A study will be presented this April at the American Academy of Neurology conference describing a simple test that measures reaction time which the study authors claim can help assess whether athletes have suffered a concussion and when they're able to resume playing...

Need to reassess patients thought to be in vegetative state with functional mri study

Posted on February 18, 2010
Recent medical reports in the New England Journal of Medicine February 18, 2010) Vol 362 no. 7 report that upwards of 40% of patients thought to be in a persistent vegetative state are misdiagnosed. A video interview with two of the study authors, Adrian Owen and Steven Laureys describing and illustrating the use of fMRI studies to determine cognitive thought can be found on line by clicking Coma Patients Talk With Brain.

Scheduled Presentation at 8th World Conference on Brain Injury

Posted on February 15, 2010
I am honored to have been invited to submit a poster presentation at the International Brain Injury Association World Congress on Brain Injury to be held in Washington DC from March 10-March 14, 2010 in Washington D.C. The topic of my presentation is ?Challenges in the field of neurolaw in the 21st century?...

NFL Helmet study embroiled in controversy

Posted on February 14, 2010
The NFL research study on football helmets and their role in preventing brain trauma is embroiled in considerable controversy. According to an ESPN on line story, the NFL is preparing to deliver results of its research on football helmets next month, but some observers are raising questions about who has been running the league's testing program, the type of tests it is using and the validity of its results...

Brain Injury Survivors Guide

Posted on February 13, 2010
I recently received in the mail a copy of a new book written by Garry Prowe, the husband of Jessica, a brain injury survivor who was involved in a horrific automobile accident. The book is entitled, Successfully Surviving a Brain Injury-A Family Guidebook...

New guidelines proposed to determine when children with brain injuries require CT scans

Posted on February 12, 2010
New guidelines have been proposed to provide guidance to physicians in determining when children who have been subjected to head trauma require a CT scan. The guidelines -- dubbed the CATCH rules (Canadian Assessment of Tomography for Childhood Injury) ? look for seven key signs that a head injury may be serious...

Delay in brain surgery leaves 22 year old girl in vegetative state

Posted on February 12, 2010
News reports from California on a jury award of $12 million on Thursday to a Southern California woman who was left in a vegetative state after a hospital delayed proper neurosurgical care for her brain injury. According to the reports, this 22 year old individual had been shot in the head by an air gun and was rushed to the hospital fully conscious where she was able to walk into the emergency room...

Submit a Video to 2010 Neuo Film Festival

Posted on February 11, 2010
People with compelling stories to share about living with a brain disorder or neurologic condition are invited to submit a short video to the 2010 Neuro Film Festival, an American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Foundation event that aims to raise awareness about brain disorders and the need to support research into preventions, treatments, and cures...

Brain Injuries and Addiction Disorders

Posted on February 11, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of New York State has announced a new program entitled "The Hidden-Problem: Brain Injury and Addiction to be held on March 16 2010 at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, 106 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY...

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