Health and Psychology

Brain injuries occur from a variety of causes.  The most common type of brain injury is a closed head injury.  About 300,000 individuals with closed head injury seek medical care from emergency rooms each year.  Many more individuals with closed head inury actually think they are fine following the injury and it's not until days, weeks or months later that they notice symptoms.  Often they have no idea that their symptoms are caused by a closed head injury and they seek me...

When I was in graduate school I sold my fine and graphic art work.  I continued to sell my work until 1985.  One evening coming home late from work I was mugged.  My glasses were broken into my face and I fell backwards onto concrete momentarily losing my vision.  At the hospital emergency room I was told I had a mild concussion.  Following that event I was not able to differentiate colors adequately.  Although I attempted to rehabilitate my art work, I was no lo...

I teach psychological and neuropsychological assessment and train other psychologists and neuropsychologists in the use of assessment techniques.

Psychological assessment involves the use of standardized psychological test instruments as well as screening measures, surveys, questionnaires, and observations to evaluate psychological functioning of an individual in a variety of areas.  The more common types of psychological assessment are for general intellectual or cogni...

Jessica Jacobs died in August. She had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. She is also described as having Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome. I say described because I’m not sure I believe that. I think she had Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome with Autonomic Dysregulation and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is just a part of that. She lived most of her adult life in Washington, DC but moved back to Twain Harte, California when she became too disabled to continue working. She wanted t...