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Roethlisberger's Injury Highlights Nerve Center for Head Trauma

Stark & Stark
January 06, 2009 13:09

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...

A Wonderful Holiday Present

Stark & Stark
December 29, 2008 13:06

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. Larrabee, Ph.D. both addressing the...

Brain Injury Association of America Supports Widespread Use of New Prevalence Estimates for Traumatic Brain Injury

Stark & Stark
December 23, 2008 13:00

Below is a press release which I received from the Brain Injury Association of America in which they applaud the Center for Disease Control's National Center for Injury Prevention on their efforts in funding traumatic brain injury research. I as well applaud the CDC's efforts and offer my continued...

IBA Announces 8th World Congress on Brain Injury

Stark & Stark
December 19, 2008 13:15

The International Brain Injury Association has announced that the 8th World Congress on Brain Injury will be held from March 10 - 14, 2010 in Washington, D.C., USA.  The conference is for all professionals involved with serving persons with acquired brain injury. For more details, the reader...

The Assessment of Amnesia Following Mild TBI

Stark & Stark
December 17, 2008 13:44

I recently found a website which I think will be very helpful to the readers of my blog. The site is an online presentation established by the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University in Australia which is designed to assist people who have suffered from a mild Traumatic Brain Injury...

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

Stark & Stark
December 12, 2008 13:08

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...

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

Stark & Stark
December 08, 2008 13:53

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...

Lees-Haley Debunked Once Again

Stark & Stark
December 01, 2008 13:36

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. Lees-Haley, Ph.D. ...

Gulf War Illness Confirmed

Stark & Stark
November 25, 2008 13:34

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...

Advances in Diagnostic Testing

Stark & Stark
November 21, 2008 13:08

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...