Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI): Cerebellum and Brain Stem Injuries

Both the brain stem and the cerebellum are the interfaces between the central nervous system and the body. All the impulses that go from our brain into our hand, arms, legs and other voluntary and involuntary muscles route through these two sections of the brain.


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29 Apr, 2008 | Perry Fisher |

TBI: Parietal Lobe Injuries

Any brain damage can cause widespread and systemic problems. Some effects can be physically debilitating, others may have an extreme psychological and emotional impact. Each area of the brain controls a unique set of functions, and many times these functions have different aspects of it controlled by different areas of the brain. This means that regardless of what area of the brain is injured, that many systems can be affected.

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23 Apr, 2008 | Perry Fisher |

Traumatic Brain Injuries – The Silent Epidemic – Part 2

North Carolina Statistics

As we saw in earlier, which looked at brain injury statistics, in the United States, over 1.5 million people every year sustain some type of traumatic brain injury. But how does that compare to North Carolina?


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28 Mar, 2008 | Perry Fisher |

Traumatic Brain Injuries – The Silent Epidemic – Part 1

Nationwide Statistics For Brain Injury

There are hundreds of debilitating and deadly diseases in our country, and it seems like everyone knows someone who has been affected by one. Multiple Sclerosis affects over 10,000 new people per year. Spinal cord injuries number over 11,000 new cases. HIV and AIDS cases number just under 45,000. Breast cancer cases, over 175,000 new cases per year.

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24 Mar, 2008 | Perry Fisher |

THE FIVE R’S OF MEMORY

There is a great interview released on Sunday, February 24, 2008 in the newspaper The Hindu which interviewed Professor K. Ganapathy. The article was by D. Murali and N.S. Vageesh. In that article, Professor Ganapathy discussed the 5 R’s of memory or learning. Professor Ganapathy is the president of Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation in Chennai, India. He is the former President of Neurological Society of India, and currently Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Head, Division of Stereotactic Radiosurgery at Apollo Hospitals in Chennai.

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17 Mar, 2008 | Perry Fisher |

Holding The Wrongdoer Accountable

The traumatically brain injured constitute an ever growing segment of our population. Each year, approximately 1.4 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury in the United States. The costs of a brain injury are not purely financial. Often, a brain injury starts a downward spiral in the survivor’s life where the emotional and physical ramifications quickly exceed the financial ones.

Once the acute care period is over and the patient is stabilized, the resources available to the patient can substantially impact treatment and recovery. In a perfect world, every patient would have unlimited access to the best resources available to meet their needs. Ours unfortunately is not a perfect world.

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01 Mar, 2008 | Perry Fisher |