Washington DC Brain
Injury Attorney
Traumatic brain injury is often the result
of someone else's negligence. Attorneys can help TBI victims
hold the people responsible for their injuries accountable.
Symptoms can include memory loss, fatigue, headaches, and
the inability to concentrate. People who experience such
symptoms because of an accident where other people are involved
should contact an attorney.
Mood disturbances following brain injury can
present in a variety of ways. It is not unusual for the mood
symptoms to be subtle, but for behavioral manifestations
to predominate, such as irritability, uncooperativeness,
apathy, poor progression or effort in rehabilitation. The
mood disturbances may not necessarily meet traditional psychiatric
criteria, but may present more as a mood lability or dyscontrol.
Often, it is more accurate to refer to a dysregulation of
mood, as brain injured patients can show features of several
mood disorders, rather than fit neatly into any one diagnostic
category currently used. The traumatic brain injured population
is at increased risk for developing depressive disorders,
with estimates of major depression occurring at about 25%
or higher...(Ref:http://ccm.psych.uic.edu/PatientInfo/TBIInfo.aspx)
LOCAL INFORMATION IN WASHINGTON DC
The site on which the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal
Courthouse is now located was part of a 500 acre patent granted
to Maryland Resident Richard Pinner. After his death, the
property was left to his sons Richard and William on October
11, 1666. After both sons died, the property was left to their mother, Ann Atkins
Pinner; and after her death, it was inherited by Richard Pinner's daughters,
Anna and Elizabeth. In 1718, it appears that the land was purchased by Dr. Gustavus
Brown of Port Tobacco and by 1730 it was acquired by a syndicate of investors,
led by Washington real estate tycoon James Greenleaf and Robert Morris, a financier
of the American Revolution. These investors constructed a series of structures
called "Wheat Row." This development ran along what was later called 4½ Street
(John Marshall Place). By 1792, the future courthouse site (about ten blocks
south of Wheat Row), remained undeveloped, but had been subdivided into two
parcels. The parcel called "Beall's Levels", owned by Benjamin Oden, would be
the site of the future courthouse...
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