Peter S. Muller, M.D., P.A., 601 Ewing Street Suite B-3
Princeton, New Jersey 08540, Telephone: 609 924-4061
May 11, 2001
Department of Veterans Affairs
Regional office
20 Washington place
Newark New Jersey 07102
RE: Total Disability of Mr. James Raab (RA11761750)
To Whom It May Concern:
Mr. James Raab has been treated by me for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE) which dates back to brain injuries suffered in the Vietnam War. He had been mistakenly treated for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder over the past 30+ years until I saw him initially in 1998. Then he clearly had smell, olfactory, taste, touch, tactile, visual, and auditory hallucinations, blanking out periods, and virtually all of the enclosed TLE symptoms.
James had a remarkably good response to carbazepine in terms of his hallucinations but continues to have the cognitive impairments which make him totally disabled. I have enclosed his brain SPECT scan which clearly documents an active basal ganglia focus and an interocictal temporal lobe focus. I also enclose some papers which describe the disorder Mr. Raab suffers from. This does not deny the presence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder which also is in evidence.
Sincerely,
Peter Mueller, MD
Thank You, Jim Raab http://jimraab.blogspot.com/
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