All posts tagged 'neuropsychologist'

Speech Therapist Helps in Transition After TBI

Posted on January 15th, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices

Speech Therapist Helps in Transition: Craig Part Sixteen  Craig continues to talk about his speech therapist and how she helped him in transitioning out of therapy.  She hung in there with him even though funds ran out.   During the time you have therapy, you’re getting someone to basically be..
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Neuropsychologist: Treatment Overcomes Survivors Fear

Posted on October 15th, 2012 · Posted in TBI Voices

 Neuropsychologist: Lori Part Eight One of the sad ironies of brain injury rehabilitation is that neuropsychologist, who are perhaps the best trained specialists in brain injury, rarely do therapy.  Most neuropsychologist work is devoted to assessment of injury, not at rehabilitation. We don’t see a lot of survivors who got neuropsychological..
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Military, Football Concussions: Higher Risk Dementia

Posted on August 1st, 2011 · Posted in Brain Injury

Alzheimer’s and Concussion Linked A new study introduced at the Alzheimer’s Association’s International Conference in July, suggest a strong link between head injuries in veterans and dementia. Soldiers who had suffered brain injury were two times more likely to develop the brain disorder. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43797462 Another study indicates an even more..
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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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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 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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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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Iraq Brain Injury Study: More Evidence On Process of Brain Injury

Posted on February 25th, 2008 · Posted in Brain Injury

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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Neuro Docs, the Difficulty in Keeping them Straight

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

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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