Motor Vehicle Accidents
Concussion, moderate TBI, severe TBI from collisions, pedestrian and motorcycle accidents
Overview
Forensic Neuropsychiatric Evaluation for TBI
Direct Answer
In TBI litigation, a forensic neuropsychiatrist evaluates the cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and personality changes caused by brain injury and provides expert opinions on causation, diagnosis, prognosis, functional impairment, future treatment needs, and damages. Dr. Lodhi's BNNP fellowship training at Stanford enables him to correlate neuroimaging findings with clinical presentation, integrate neurocognitive testing data, and differentiate TBI-related impairment from pre-existing conditions or malingering: the critical evidentiary questions in most brain injury cases.
Approximately 2.8 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury annually, and neuropsychiatric sequelae (cognitive deficits, personality changes, emotional dysregulation, impaired executive function) are the leading driver of long-term disability and damages in TBI litigation. The central legal questions in most TBI cases concern causation and the extent of impairment, both of which require a physician who understands brain-behavior relationships.
What Dr. Lodhi Evaluates in TBI Cases
Dr. Lodhi's forensic TBI evaluations address the full chain from injury to impairment: the mechanism and biomechanics of injury, acute presentation and emergency department findings, review and correlation of neuroimaging (MRI, CT, susceptibility-weighted imaging) with clinical presentation, neurocognitive testing integration, psychiatric comorbidity assessment, malingering and effort validity analysis, pre-existing condition differentiation (including ADHD vs. acquired attentional deficits), prognosis and expected recovery trajectory, future treatment needs and costs, and the impact of impairment on occupational, social, and daily functioning. Dr. Lodhi also evaluates and, where warranted, refutes opposing expert claims based on DTI, volumetric analysis, or other imaging techniques that lack sufficient validation for individual-level forensic conclusions.
TBI Case Types
Falls & Premises Liability
Slip-and-fall, construction site injuries, nursing home falls, inadequate safety measures
Sports Concussion & CTE
Repetitive head impacts, post-concussion syndrome, chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Assaults
Physical assault with head injury, domestic violence TBI, criminal restitution cases
Blast Injury
Military blast-related TBI, industrial explosions, occupational blast exposure
Anoxic Brain Injury
Near-drowning, cardiac arrest, surgical complications, carbon monoxide exposure
ADHD vs. TBI Differential
Distinguishing pre-existing ADHD from acquired attentional deficits after brain injury
Workers' Compensation
Occupational head injury, disputed causation, return-to-work capacity, MMI determination
Why Dr. Lodhi's BNNP Training Matters in TBI Cases
In approximately 70% of contested TBI cases, the defense challenges the causal link between the injury and the claimed neuropsychiatric deficits. Effective expert testimony must bridge the gap between the brain pathology documented on imaging and the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes experienced by the individual. Dr. Lodhi's BNNP fellowship at Stanford specifically trained him in this bridge: the diagnosis and management of behavioral and cognitive disorders caused by brain injury.
One of the most common defense arguments in mTBI litigation is that claimed attentional and executive function deficits reflect pre-existing ADHD rather than acquired brain injury. Dr. Lodhi runs a clinical practice specializing in complex ADHD, giving him deep expertise in distinguishing ADHD symptom profiles from the attentional deficits caused by TBI, a differential diagnosis that is decisive in many cases and that few forensic experts can address with the same depth of clinical experience.
In most TBI cases, Dr. Lodhi works alongside other experts. Paired with a neuropsychologist, he provides the medical causation framework that gives cognitive testing data its legal meaning. Paired with a neurologist, he connects documented brain pathology to the psychiatric and behavioral consequences that drive damages. As a sole expert when the case requires it, his BNNP training allows him to address both the neurological and psychiatric dimensions of TBI in a single, integrated formulation.
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