“Add these published reports to the fact Hillary tends to make short public appearances and often appears fatigued, as well as her alleged forgetfulness over the last six to eight months would all point to her having some degree of post-concussion syndrome,” Kassicieh said.
The Mayo Clinic website lists the following as symptoms of post-concussion syndrome: headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, anxiety, insomnia, loss of concentration, loss of memory, as well as sensitivity to noise and light.
“Headaches that occur after a concussion can vary and may feel like tension-type headaches or migraines,” the Mayo Clinic website states. “Most, however, are tension-type headaches, which may be associated with a neck injury that happened at the same time as the head injury.
“In some cases, people experience behavior or emotional changes after a mild traumatic brain injury,” the Mayo Clinic stresses. “Family members may notice that the person has become more irritable, suspicious, argumentative or stubborn.”
Neuropsychological testing needed?
WND asked Dr. Kassicieh what specifically drew his attention to the possibility Hillary Clinton might be suffering from post-concussion syndrome.
“As a neurologist who’s extremely familiar with post-concussion syndrome, it wasn’t any one thing that drew my attention to Hillary Clinton,” Kassicieh emphasized. “Having treated many patients with post-concussion syndrome, and having lectured and written medical articles on the subject, all the pieces of Hillary Clinton’s behavior since suffering the December 2012 concussion are highly suggestive of the conclusion that she may possibly be suffering from latent post-concussion syndrome.”
Kassicieh clarified that “syndromes” involve “a collection of neurological or neuropsychiatric symptoms or manifestations, such that you can have a little more of this or a little more of that.”
In each patient, however, there is a variation in which symptoms manifest and in the intensity of the symptoms.
“So, when it comes to post-concussion syndrome, some people may have more fatigue problems, others may have more difficulty with memory and recall,” he continued. “A very common condition with sufferers of post-concussion syndrome is that they cannot easily multitask, and they have greater trouble staying on-task for any length of time because their concentration and ability to focus on completing tasks are impaired.”
Kassicieh said he treats his post-concussion patients symptomatically.
“I send for neuropsychological evaluation those of my patients demonstrating persistent post-concussion symptoms, particularly when those symptoms involve cognitive difficulties or memory trouble, forgetfulness and problems concentrating such that they are easily distracted, or that they suffer depression and easy fatigue,” he said.
“There are batteries of neuropsychological tests that are performed, usually taking all day, that result in a multi-page report that detail very specific testing for the post-concussion syndrome and measure their degree of memory loss, their ability to concentrate, their attention span, as well as a host of other parameters so I can get a very detailed picture on the degree and scope of any given patient’s cognitive dysfunction and post concussion syndrome issues,” the physician said.
WND asked Kassicieh whether he would send Hillary Clinton for neuropsychological testing if she were one of his patients.
“Obviously, because Hilary is a politician, she would want to keep out of the public domain the fact she might be suffering from post-concussion syndrome,” he said. But if she were my patient I would want to send her for neuropsychological testing to get a more precise diagnosis of the post-concussion symptoms I believe we are observing.”
Thyroid complications
Kassicieh said Clinton “looks like a hypothyroidism patient to me, so that wasn’t a very big surprise when I found out based on my research regarding her current health condition.”
“Insufficiently treated hypothyroidism can lead to lethargy, fatigue, cognitive clouding,” he said. “So, if Hillary Clinton had even a little bit of post-concussion syndrome it could be a problem if her thyroid was not adequately treated.”
He said he doesn’t “particularly like Armour Thyroid as a medication for hypothyroidism.”
“It’s an old, ancient therapy that’s not a good preparation to treat hypothyroidism in my opinion,” he said.
“The point is that Hillary Clinton has a myriad of factors that can predispose her to cognitive dysfunction that leads to unclear decision making, with post-concussion syndrome and an inadequately thyroid condition, all compounded by her advanced age. And these are only the things we know about.”
He noted that repetitive head injuries are cumulative in that the brain “remembers each concussion it has suffered.”
“And there is neurological damage with each successive concussion. Once a brain cell dies, it never heals itself,” he said.
“Brain damage is additive, so if Hillary Clinton were to suffer another falling-down incident resulting in a concussion, I would suspect the damage to her brain would be even more severe than suffered from the first concussion alone.”
WND also previously reported that hypothyroidism can complicate Clinton’s blood clotting problem in that an underactive thyroid can lead to hypercoagulability, a condition that tends to produce excessive blood clotting.
“Hypothyroidism can predispose a patient to hypercoagulability,” Kassicieh observed. “So, in Hillary Clinton’s case, she is being treated with an old drug for her thyroid problem, Armour Thyroid, that may not be adequately treating her hypothyroidism.
“Can that make her risk for hypercoagulability greater? In my opinion, yes, absolutely.”
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