Dr. Reiner: McConnell Who’s Had ‘Traumatic Brain Injury’ Is Likely Suffering from Seizures

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REINER: "Well, first of all, I find it very hard to watch that tape. The senator has had a really precipitous decline in his health over the last several months, and it's playing out very publicly. So, my heart goes out to him. What I see, basically, is the senator becoming perhaps a little bit confused and then mute, and he stares off to the side, sort of to the upper side, and is unable to speak for about ten seconds. That looks like he's having a type of seizure called an absence seizure. The senator had a really traumatic brain injury in March when he fell, and about 10 percent of people who have a big enough injury to be hospitalized after a head injury like that will subsequently have things like a seizure. That's what it looks like to me. This is exactly the same presentation as five weeks ago. They basically are mirror images."