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    The Long-Term Effects of Repetitive Head Trauma
    
    Traumatic Brain Injury in Criminal Cases After Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), people can experience personality changes, social anxiety, irritability, anger, depression, general anxiety, mood swings, emotional lability, and feelings of being overwhelmed. The bottom line is that the brain no longer functions exactly the way it did prior to the head injury. The location of [...]
    
    Actinic (Senile) Purpura and Its Imposters
    
    Often in assault or abuse cases, the victim is elderly. When evaluating these cases, it is prudent to retain a medical expert to review the discovery and determine if the injuries are consistent with contusions from trauma or are senile purpura. Contusions (bruises) can have a similar appearance to purpura, but contusions occur because of [...]
    
    Bruise Dating for Court Cases Can be Tricky
    
    - Transcript of Video - Today we’re going to talk about bruising and the dating of bruises. I get calls on this on a regular basis regarding cases in which the victim has bruises. Whether it's a child abuse case, a domestic violence case, or assault case, oftentimes the bruising is used as evidence to [...]
    
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