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Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog

Information, news and legal updates for individuals and families who have suffered a traumatic brain injury.
By Bruce Stern

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 10:02:10

Roethlisberger's Injury Highlights Nerve Center for Head Trauma

Posted on January 06, 2009
A week ago Sunday, Ben Roethlisberger sustained his third concussion, two from football and one from his near fatal motorcycle crash. Fortunately for Roethlisberger, Pittsburgh has one of the leading concussion management teams in the world headed by neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon and consultants Drs...

A Wonderful Holiday Present

Posted on December 29, 2008
I thought Christmas came early when I received my copy of the Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, the Official Journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. This issue contained two articles, one by Erin D. Bigler, Ph.D. and the other by Glenn J...

Passenger in Car Accident Receives a $3.5 Million Settlement for Injuries

Posted on December 12, 2008
On January 22, 2007 I represented a resident of Trenton, New Jersey who was a passenger in a car which was hit head on by a dump truck while traveling on State Highway 68. The dump truck that hit her was unable to stop and attempted to avoid colliding with another vehicle by entering the northbound lane...

Diffusion Tenser Imaging Identifies Abnormalities in Patients with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on December 08, 2008
A new study published in the Journal of NeuroTrauma (November 2008) supports the use of Diffusion Tenser Imaging (DTI) in mild traumatic brain injury patients to assist in diagnosing this injury. Researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center conducted the current study, the purpose of which was to identify otherwise occult white matter abnormalities in patients suffering persistent cognitive impairment due to mild traumatic brain injury...

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Lees-Haley Debunked Once Again

Posted on December 01, 2008
Readers of this blog are familiar with my entries regarding bogus scientific literature published in the name of science but paid for by the pharmaceutical, insurance and other large industries of corporate America. I recently came across another article by Paul R...

Gulf War Illness Confirmed

Posted on November 25, 2008
A new and extensive federal report released this week concludes that roughly one in four of our US Veterans of the 1990-1991 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness. According to the 452 page report, “Scientific evidence leaves no question that Gulf War illness is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans...

Advances in Diagnostic Testing

Posted on November 21, 2008
Research on sophisticated diagnostic tests were presented this weekend at the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience in Washington, D.C. According to a report published in USA Today, researchers from the University of California-San Diego combined “two advanced brain scanning techniques-MEG (Magnetoencephalography) and DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging)- that permitted them to detect brain damage in patients with mild traumatic brain injury in which conventional MRI and CT scans had been normal...

Advances In Neuroimaging

Posted on November 18, 2008
At present, the gold standard for objectively proving that an individual sustained a mild traumatic brain injury is through neuropsychological testing. As we know, standard diagnostic testing such as CT scans, MRIs and EEGs, due to their lack of sensitivity, rarely if ever detect brain abnormalities in patients with mild traumatic brain injury...

New Study on Word Memory Testing

Posted on November 13, 2008
I have written several times in the past on the validity of Word Memory Testing in diagnosing and treating traumatic brain injuries. A new study calls into question statements continuously made by Paul Green that the SVT measures on the Word Memory Test requires minimal to no cognitive effort...

Pascrell Praises VA Decision to Expand Compensation for People with Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on November 11, 2008
United States Representative Bill Pascrell, Jr. of New Jersey, the co-founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Brain Injury Task Force, applauded the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for increasing disability payments for veterans diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)...

Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

Posted on November 07, 2008
In previous blog entries, I have discussed the recent exposé regarding industry’s payment of money to scientists to publish "research" that is supportive in industry’s defense of defective products. I just finished an outstanding book entitled "Doubt Is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health" by David Michaels...

Brain Injury Association of New Jersey - Board of Trustees

Posted on November 04, 2008
I was honored on October 23, 2008 to be reelected to serve a second three-year term on the Board of Trustees of the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey. On Thursday, BIANJ held their annual meeting. Besides the election of new officers, BIANJ presented three awards...

Maybe, Just Maybe

Posted on October 30, 2008
It was late in the third quarter and Penn State was fighting not only to keep its undefeated season alive, but its hopes for a national championship as well. As Penn State quarterback, Daryll Clark scrambled for a seven-yard gain, he collided with two 300-pound defensive linemen...

Daubert Issues in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases

Posted on October 27, 2008
Last Thursday, October 23, 2008, I traveled to New York City to participate in a continuing legal education program on traumatic brain injury sponsored by Lorman Education Services. My topic at the program was Daubert Issues in TBI Cases. My presentation focused on the evidentiary requirements for expert testimony and steps that can be taken to keep junk science out of the courtroom...

Montclair High School Student's Death Leads to Stricter Policies

Posted on October 23, 2008
The dangers of athletes returning to competition too soon after suffering from a sports-related concussion has been recognized for some time now. In fact, just a few years ago, the Brain Injury Association of New Jersey invited trainers and coaches from New Jersey high school athletic departments to attend a sports concussion seminar at Giant’s Stadium in the Meadowlands...

More than half of Toronto's homeless population have experienced severe trauma

Posted on October 21, 2008
A new study states that prior to becoming homeless, more than one out of every three of Toronto, Canada’s homeless had suffered from a traumatic brain injury, which furthers past theories that mental health is linked to homelessness. A paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal recently found that more than half of the homeless population of Toronto had experienced a severe brain injury, and 70% of those did so before ending up on the streets...

Army Announces New Suicide Prevention Tool for Soldiers

Posted on October 16, 2008
Last week I reported on a fascinating lecture I attended at the NABIS medical legal conference in New Orleans. Readers will recall that at that presentation, Dr. Mary Hibbard of Mount Sinai Medical Center discussed the increased suicide following traumatic brain injury of our soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan...

Montclair High School Student Critically Injured in Football Game

Posted on October 15, 2008
I have previously written on the increasingly high number of sports-related brain injuries suffered by high school students and the devastating and lasting effects these injuries have on a child's brain. An article on MSNBC.com reports of a local high school student who was injured in a football game, and is now fighting for his life...

The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation

Posted on October 14, 2008
The Sarah Jane Brain Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is to assist in the research of new developments for children suffering from pediatric traumatic brain injury (PTBI) and the rehabilitation of children, recently announced that two of the nation's leaders in the field of PTBI, Dr...

Are Our Troops at Risk For Suicide?

Posted on October 10, 2008
During Dr. Mary Hibbard’s presentation on the neurobehavioral aspects of traumatic brain injury, she discussed the subject of suicide following traumatic brain injury. For quite some time, rehabilitation professionals have been aware of the correlation between traumatic brain injury and increased incidence of suicide...

21st Medical-Legal Conference for Attorneys on Traumatic Brain Injury

Posted on October 08, 2008
As I stated in my earlier blog, NABIS sponsored the 21st medical legal conference for attorneys on traumatic brain injury. I had the honor of serving as co-chair of the legal conference and both moderated and spoke at yesterday’s session. Joining me on the program were William Singer, M...

North America Brain Injury Society's Annual Board Meeting

Posted on October 06, 2008
I have just returned from New Orleans where I attended the North American Brain Injury Society’s (NABIS) annual board meeting where I serve as treasurer of the organization and to attend NABIS’ annual medical-legal conference. At our board meeting on Wednesday, the board of trustees elected Ron Savage, Ed...

The First International Conference on Culture, Ethnicity, and Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Posted on October 03, 2008
The First International Conference on Culture, Ethnicity, and Brain Injury Rehabilitation will be held March 12 and 13, 2009 in Washington, D.C. This conference will bring together brain injury rehabilitation experts from different countries and cultures to discuss and share ideas regarding effective assessment, intervention, and research practices...

Sports Related Concussions Warrant Longer Recovery Time

Posted on October 01, 2008
An article I recently found in the Philadelphia Inquirer states that the suggested one-two week break from sports an athlete should take after suffering a concussion may not be long enough. Recent studies in the Archives of Neurology report that two weeks is not a sufficient enough amount of time for the brain to recover from such a traumatic event...

Beware of the Literature Reprinted: Investigation of adversary's treatises is now required

Posted on September 26, 2008
Ever since the New Jersey Supreme Court liberalized and modernized the use of learned treatises, the use of medical literature to support one’s theories or to cross-examine an adversary’s experts has proven helpful. [N.J.R.E. 803(c)(18); Jacober v...

12 Athletes Leaving Brains to Concussion Study

Posted on September 23, 2008
With the recent and overwhelming reports of the severe brain trauma suffered, and more often ignored, by members of the National Football League, researchers at Boston University's School of Medicine have a new plan to study the long-term effects of concussion trauma on a player's brain...

Pentagon Awards Large Grant to the University of California San Diego

Posted on September 19, 2008
The Department of Defense has awarded $60 million in funding, the largest grant ever, for the study of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. The grant was given to doctors at the University of California San Diego and several other research hospitals in the area...

Sports-Related Concussions Increase in America's Youth

Posted on September 15, 2008
I have written several times in the past on the devastating effects of sport related concussions in children. More and more the injuries are being pushed aside in order to further a child's athletic career. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the staggering statistics...

Victims of Brain Trauma Driven to Create

Posted on September 09, 2008
I recently found an extremely interesting and inspiring story on ABC News.com which highlights what some call a medical mystery for stroke victims. The story is that of several stroke survivors who after returning home from the hospital began a compulsive obsession for art...

For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving

Posted on September 04, 2008
I read an interesting article recently on the New York Times' website. The article, For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving, discusses a recent study which, for the first time, records and individual's brain cells in the act of recalling a memory...

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