One of the most challenging aspects of brain injury cases has to do with people who were very smart to begin with for whom a brain injury renders them slightly less smart, and the reason those cases can be so challenging is that very smart people have the ability to compensate for injuries in ways […]

With any kind of an injury to the brain, there’s a risk of swelling of the brain, which then can cause additional damage to the brain. Another situation is when you have bleeding on the brain, which creates a pocket of blood that then moves parts of the brain around, thereby injuring the brain. When […]

After a concussion or a mild traumatic brain injury the best way to describe it is that your brain is bruised. It has an injury that it needs to recover from, and statistically speaking, most people do recover from that level of injury. When your brain is injured, much like you would rest to heal […]

“Anoxic” injuries, for example, occur when the brain does not get enough oxygen or is deprived of oxygen for a while. “Anoxia” (a traumatic lack of oxygen to the brain) can be the result of various events, including a stroke, drowning, or carbon monoxide/chemical poisoning. When you see those sorts of insults, all of the […]

When we talk about traumatic brain injuries, we talk about the physical manifestations of it. Is there something we can see on an x-ray, a CT scan or an MRI? What most people are most concerned about aren’t those things. Instead, they are wondering how to quantify the impact that a traumatic event has had […]