Welcome to Dr. Zender’s Psychology Today blog, The New Normal.
Traumatic accidents can seriously impact every area of your life. However, with the proper information and support you—or someone you care about—can reclaim the life you were meant to live. In Dr. Zender’s blog, you will find tools, tips and ideas to facilitate your recovery process —tools that will help you to cope with your physical and psychological injuries and conditions. You will learn to do more than just survive, you will learn to thrive!
A note to auto insurance companies: You will find valuable information here that will help you better serve your insured customers. In fact, when patients get the proper supports, needed care and treatment up front, they need far fewer resources in the long run than if support is withheld. That translates into a big win-win for your company and a boost to your bottom line!
Pituitary Dysfunction: Traumatic Brain Injury Factors
I continue to receive testimonials from the patients of Mark L. Gordon, MD about the astounding results he is achieving through Hormone Replacement Therapy treating traumatic brain injuries. Over thirty testimonials were obtained from patients writing comments to my blog posts reporting on Dr. Gordon’s work as a neuroendocrinologist evaluating hormonal dysfunction for patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. From the testimonials, Dr. Gordon has [...]
Near Death Experiences: Is There Life After Death?
A reader of one of my recent blog posts posted a comment that is the stimulus for this writing. He commented that there is an unrecognized problem: being misdiagnosed by mental health professionals. The gentleman, a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer, directed me to videos by a retired PhD Army nurse, Colonel Diane Corcoran. Corcoran talks about near death experiences (NDEs) and the [...]
Omega-3s in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Brain Injury
Recently I had the pleasure of having a long telephone conversation with Dr. Michael Lewis, the author of When Brains Collide: What Every Athlete and Parent Should Know About Concussions and Head Injuries. Dr. Lewis is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and Tulane University School of Medicine, and completed post-graduate training at Walter Reed and Johns Hopkins. Lewis [...]
Understanding and Managing Flashbacks
There is relatively little empirical research into the flashback phenomenon. Nevertheless, flashbacks are a common distressing symptom people experience in the aftermath of surviving a traumatic event. Traumatic events emotionally overwhelmed the survivor and involve danger of loss of life or limb or witnessing others being harmed. Indeed, flashbacks, nightmares and sleep disturbance might be considered the trifecta of post-traumatic stress disorder. David J. Morris [...]
New Hope for Traumatic Brain Injury Survivors: The Age of Endocrinology.
Since the time of Galen, one of the greatest physicians of first-century Rome, the endocrine system—which produces and sends hormones through your body and organs—has been acknowledged as vital to the functioning of your body. But only recently has the role of endocrine glands and hormonal imbalances been highlighted as central in the neurobehavioral and neurocognitive dysfunction following head injuries Endocrinologist Mark [...]
Transforming the Trauma Paradigm: Treating Inflammation
Most mental health professionals receive no training in the role inflammation and hormonal imbalance plays in disturbed emotion, behavior, and cognition. This is partly due to the continued split between mind and body that was crystallized in the 17th century by the French philosopher René Descartes. Descartes, Deep Philosophy, and the Ancient Mystery Schools Descartes talked about some really good things that have served [...]
