NABIS Medical/Legal Seminar
I have just returned from the most successful brain injury conference ever held by the North America Brain Injury Society (NABIS) which was held at Amelia Island, Florida over this past week.
As an experiment, the Board of Trustees of NABIS decided to expand the annual medical/legal conference (now in it's 18th year) to include mutit-tracks for other professionals who provide treatment and care to persons with acquired traumatic brain injury. I am proud to report that this year we had over 350 participants to our conference.
Jonathan Silver, M.D. editor of the Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury and one of the nation's leading neuropsychiatrists gave the keynote address speaking on traumatic brain injury and psychiatric disorders. Erin Bigler, Ph.D. and Monte Buchsbaum, M.D. provided outstanding programs on the present and future state of neuroimaging. Everyone was astounded by how far neuroimaging has come in its ability to image the human brain.
Malingering, always a hot topic and one that usually raises the ire of attorneys, was a hot topic at this year's conference. Sherrod Taylor, Dorothy Sims and Robert Heilbrunner, Ph.D. each presented on their individual perspectives.
There were too many wonderful presentations to list all of them and I apologize to the speakers who were not listed. A copy of the program can be obtained from the NABIS website.
The bottom line, the 18th medical/legal seminar on traumatic brain injury was a huge success and we certainly look forward to next year's conference scheduled in Miami, Florida.
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At the seminar was the effects of apoxia discussed and any treatment to help short term memory loss?
As an introduction, I am a real estate attorney in north Jersey.Recently, my son,had an incident the resulted in acquired brain injury including loss of short term memory. He is currently getting therapy at Kessler. While he is improving in many ways, he still has memory problems. This happened when he was at school in Williamsport, PA. His heart stopped due to short QT syndrome and it was restarted by a defribilator. I have an attorney in Williamsport.lookin into the response time and the use of the defribilator. The first one used by the campus police may not have worked and he was revived by the EMT difibralator. While there may be an some liability on the part of the school or the manufacturer, my main goal is to fine a way to help him get back his memory. Any insite would be appreciated
