We are excited to announce that Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci is one of the few law firms in the country that has had two of its lawyers featured on the cover of Super Lawyers Magazine.  Super Lawyers Magazine stands as a beacon in the legal industry, acknowledging the best of the best across various practice areas and firm sizes throughout the country. Through a rigorous selection process combining independent research and peer nominations, it identifies those attorneys who truly stand out in their field and grants them the Super Lawyers title recognition. For Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci, h ..read more

Navigating the Complexities of Executive Function After Traumatic Brain Injury Understanding Executive Function [1]Executive function is a set of mental skills that include working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control. We use these skills every day to learn, work, and manage daily life. Most of our higher-level thinking is mediated by the frontal lobes, which are frequently damaged in a traumatic brain injury incident.   Executive function deficits can make it hard to focus, follow directions, and handle emotions, among other things. This easy-to-read article from Psychology Toda ..read more

Irv Cantor Elected to the Board of The Black Tennis Hall of Fame On March 28, 2024, Irv Cantor, along with David Harris, was elected to serve on the Board of The Black Tennis Hall of Fame. The Black Tennis Hall of Fame (BTHOF) is an organization dedicated to preserving the history of African American tennis and honoring those who made a global impact on the ideals of sportsmanship and human rights, with special consideration extended to those who overcame racial barriers. Past inductees include Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson, and Yannick Noah. Mr. Cantor has a lifetime dedication to tennis that sp ..read more

Chronic diseases are defined broadly as conditions that last one year or more and require ongoing medical attention or limit activities of daily living or both. Chronic diseases include things such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes; it should include brain injury.2 There have been a number of consensus statements and articles that have discussed this idea over the last 15 years; some of the more well-known are:   Brain Injury Association of America White Paper, 2009: Conceptualizing Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease. TBI is not an event nor the final outcome; acute and chronic ..read more

The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report in 2022 outlining recommendations to improve research and care for people with TBI. In it, they included a call for the development and dissemination of a classification system for TBI that incorporates not only the GCS score but also brain imaging and other prognostic biomarkers and for patients to be reclassified regularly during the treatment and recovery periods.  You can read more highlights of the study here: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/25394/TBI_Highlights.pdf  The N ..read more

“There’s an often repeated saying in the brain injury community: if you’ve seen one brain injury, you’ve seen one brain injury,” said Rick Willis, president and CEO of BIAA. “Every brain injury survivor’s story is unique, and every person affected by brain injury has a story to tell. Those stories are as unique and nuanced as the person sharing it, and all of them deserve to be told.”   Graphic By Brain Injury Association Of America This Brain Injury Awareness Month, BIAA is encouraging everyone affected by brain injury, including survivors, their loved ones, and the people who treat ..read more

Brain Injury Awareness Day on Capitol Hill was held on March 6. More than 250 advocates from 37 states came to Washington, D.C., to meet with their elected officials and ask them to support the reauthorization of the TBI Act, the only piece of federal legislation devoted solely to traumatic brain injury.  The TBI Act, which passed in 1996, has funded top-tier brain injury research at the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.​ It has also provided effective and impactful state grants to increase access to rehabilitation and other services. ​The A ..read more

Lifestyle medicine is an evidence-based practice of helping people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors; applying these six pillars of lifestyle medicine is not easy and the results take time, but they can drastically improve someone’s health: Move: Moderate exercise improves respiratory fitness, cardiac function, and mental health; it also improves balance, which reduces the risks of falls. At least 30 minutes of physical activity every day, because better blood and oxygen flow to the brain helps with healing, symptom management, and preventing dementia. Eat Right: Food is medicine and good ..read more

Joseph Cantor, Partner of Cantor Grana Buckner Bucci, has been elected as the next President of the Board of the Brain Injury Association of Virginia (BIAV). His presidency will go into effect at the BIAV Board meeting on February 24th, marking the beginning of Joseph’s two-year term in office. Mr. Cantor’s nomination was a result of the Board’s nominating committee recognizing his dedication and experience within the organization. His presidency entails significant responsibilities, including presiding over all general meetings of BIAV and the Board. Additionally, he will play a cru ..read more

Recent studies suggest forgetting might not be a bad thing but rather, a form of learning, and it might not be a problem with our brains.   Dr. Tomás Ryan, whose research was done at the Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute said, “Memories are stored in ensembles of neurons called engram cells; successful recall of these memories involves the reactivation of these ensembles. Forgetting occurs when engram cells cannot be reactivated. However, it is increasingly becoming clear the memories themselves are still there, but the specific ensembles are not activated so the memory isn’t re ..read more