Cyclosporine was first discovered in 1969 and was isolated from a fungus. The drug was immediately recognized to have tremendous immuno-suppressive properties and was put to work treating organ transplant patients facing tissue rejection. Since that time it has had...
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The Brain and Eyes- Another Look At Vision and Traumatic Brain Injury
I am often asked why traumatic brain injury (TBI)? Why the brain? You are an ophthalmologist, an eye guy. Well, here is a little, but important, lesson in neuroanatomy. The brain stem lies at the base of the brain and is the interface of the spinal cord and the brain....
Chiropractic Physicians and Ophthalmology: An Unlikely Match
So I really never understood why whiplash or neck pain would have anything to do with vision. I'm an ophthalmologist, and the main focus of my career for 30 years has been eye disease and eye surgery. I got interested in the effect of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and...
Woodpeckers and Traumatic Brain Injury
So, one purpose of this blog is to get us to think and have fun. So imagine an animal that beats its head into a tree numerous times with significant force and velocity, every day. The woodpecker has a brain, and it gets slammed around quite a bit, but it adapts to...
Positron Emission Tomography (PET scans) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
What is a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan? PET scans have been around for over two decades. A PET scan is like a CT or MRI scan and is an imaging technique that can be used to visualize various parts of the body. The main concern of this blog is related to PET...
Brain Injury Vision Symptom Survey (BIVSS) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
So what if I told you a one-page, 28-item questionnaire which takes a patient 30 seconds to one minute to check off could help make the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury (TBI)? And what if I told you a score of 31 or greater indicates a significant visual...
Events
• TBI MedLegal Conference, San Diego, CA – February 2018 • PI Expert Institute & Traumatic Brain Injury Symposium (Seminar Speaker), Los Angeles, CA – March 2018 • North American Brain Injury Society, Houston, TX – March 2018 • 8th Annual Traumatic Brain Injury...
Whiplash and Visual Symptoms
Approximately half of whiplash victims have problems with vision. These are not necessarily patients with head injury or Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)- these are patients who experience what is termed in medicine "whiplash associated disorder" (WAD). As you know I am...
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Parkinson’s Disease
There has been much discussion of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and its association with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Alzheimer's, and dementia. Most of this material has been covered in previous blogs. The evidence on...
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Brain Repair
In order to keep this blog relevant I like to review academic and mainstream articles related to traumatic brain injury (TBI). I regularly read the journal "Nature"- considered a premier journal in all areas of scientific research- the best of the best for important...
