Neuropsychological Testing Quotes

Subconcussive injuries are brain injuries on top of unrecovered brain injuries.

I was diagnosed with ADHD twice. I didn't believe the first doctor who told me, and I had a whole theory that ADHD was just something they invented to make you pay for medicine, but then the second doctor told me I had it.

In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

Different people respond differently to head trauma than others.

For me, concussion response is pure common sense. We can all probably handle a few mild concussions. I have had at least three, and despite my detractors' opinions, I am mentally and physically fine.

As a scientist leading a funding agency for autism research, I think of autism as a neurodevelopmental disorder.

For somebody who has injured their brain, every single thing they say and think will be the subject of their own questioning.

I had six or seven documented concussions, so I had a lot more than that. But I feel fine.

I have been very blessed in that I have been completely fine. No headaches, no depression... absolutely no signs of post-concussion syndrome.

I've had cumulative concussions and realized that's something you carry with you.

Physiological psychology is, therefore, first of all psychology.

I forget stuff. Guess I took a few too many punches.

It's worth knowing more about the complicated environmental and genetic factors that could explain why traumatic brain injuries lead to long-term disabilities in some people and not in others.

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

X-rays revealed that some people were born without a corpus callosum, and they seemed just fine.

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can and cannot do.

Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.

I got tested to see what condition my brain is in. And it's not in real good shape.

I have a very competent case of ADD.

I think I had four concussions throughout my career that were diagnosed, and I guess that I've had seven more. But the fact that three of them came in a four month span when I was making a comeback in 2004 is a little bit scary.

I'm trying to do some things with my brain institute to understand more about the impact of concussion on brain tissue, because we have some scientists over there who are really good at looking at brain tissue and the effects of things on brain tissue.

Concussions are still kind of a mysterious thing.

I never did think I had brain damage.

When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.