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(Via Ralph William Shields — email him if you’d like to get his TBI news updates): DoD doctors say that the number of U.S. troops who have suffered wartime brain injuries may be as high as 360,000. This is a substantial jump from the Rand Corporation’s 320,000 guesstimate from last year. We’ll likely never have [...]
Mark Bennett | February 10, 2009
National Academy of Sciences: Long-Term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury.
A few findings:
Sufficient evidence of an association between (among other things):
Moderate to severe TBI and long-term adverse social-function outcomes, particularly unemployment and diminished social relationships.
TBI and depression.
TBI and aggressive behaviors.
TBI and postconcussion symptoms (such as memory problems, dizziness, and irritability).
Limited but suggestive evidence [...]
Mark Bennett | July 6, 2008
The following is a guest post, emailed to me in response to one of my Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related posts (possibly this one).
I nearly fell out of my chair on reading this post.
Due to the large number of TX NTL Guard soldiers and large numbers of active Army from El Paso and Fort Hood you [...]
Mark Bennett | February 19, 2008
We — all of us — are no more than one traumatic brain injury away from committing capital murder.
Mark Bennett | February 2, 2008
A Canadian study of athletes who have suffered “mild” traumatic brain injuries “suggests depression is actually a physical outcome of such head injuries.” Read this in conjunction with the American troop study suggesting that post-traumatic stress disorder also is an outcome of TBIs.
Why does it matter to us? Because the more people understand how incidents [...]
Mark Bennett | February 1, 2008
Interesting article in yesterday’s New England Journal of Medicine about new research into PTSD, depression, and physical health problems in U.S. troops who have suffered “mild” traumatic brain injuries. (“Mild traumatic brain injury” sounds benign, but MTBIs are “mild” only in comparison with more severe brain injuries.)
In this study, mild traumatic brain injury was significantly [...]
Mark Bennett | January 30, 2008
Steve Gustitis at the Defense Perspective reminds us that “hidden head trauma may be linked to behavioral problems in society”, which is of great import to the criminal defense lawyer.
Steve’s post was inspired by an email from John Niland of the Texas Defender Service, who sent the Texas capital defense bar a link to a [...]
