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Rehabilitation and Healing of Traumatic Brain Injuries

October 24, 2014 | Edward Smith

As a Sacramento Brain Injury Attorney since 1982, I have handled hundreds of cases for people who suffered from concussions, fractured skulls and other injuries impacting the brain resulting from auto, trucking, bicycle, motorcycle or pedestrian accidents .

Often, the nature of the brain injury is not immediately apparent. Other serious injuries can take the limelight immediately after the accident. Only later, do the serious cognitive, emotional and behavioral deficits and problems of a brain injury become apparent.

Recommending a new book on Effects of Trauma

September 25, 2014 | Edward Smith

As a holistic personal injury lawyer, I see literally hundreds of people each month suffering from the physical and emotional after-effects of trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk MD, is a psychiatrist who has treated traumatic injuries for decades and is a well known author of several very readable books on PTSD and the effect of severe trauma on the injured person and their families.

Melatonin and Traumatic Brain Injury

September 10, 2014 | Edward Smith

Traumatic Brain Injury and Melatonin

It’s been well documented in medical journals that those who suffer brain injury often complain of sleep disturbances. True, loss of sleep after a traumatic brain injury may be due to the associated pain or anxiety following such incidents. However, medical studies clearly indicate that sleep loss after a traumatic brain injury is often due to the brain’s inability to properly produce melatonin after severe trauma.