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Updates:
- September 5, 2024: Targeted Justice announced creation of first Registry for Civilians diagnosed with "Havana Syndrome"/NKBI. See announcements in Targeted Justice Substack Newsletter and Len Ber Substack .It is important to understand that this Registry is not a substitute for a diagnosis. Only Civilians already diagnosed by a physicians can request voluntary listing in the said Registry. if you are one of these civilians, please contact me via DM on x.com/PSardonicus or send a chat message on lenbermd.substack.com . If all fails, please e-mail [email protected]
In order to get diagnosed, this page will help you guide in the diagnostic process. Start by finding an otoneurologist, or a neurootologist (aka "dizziness doc") in your area and share the information on this page with him/her. Once diagnosed, please, contact me in order to voluntarily join Civilian Registry.
For additional support of your diagnosis you may use electric neuromaging method called Quantitative EEG (qEEG) with swLoreta.
Below is the list of US Physicians who have made diagnosis of "Havana Syndrome"/NKBI in civilians (not federal employees). This listing will be updated, as we get more people in the Civilians Registry:- Dr. Michael E. Hoffer, MD. Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami. 1120 NW 14th St floor 5
Miami FL 33136 ; Phone (305) 243-3564 - Lydia Shajenko, MD. 725 River Road, Suite 55, Edgewater, NJ 07020. Phone: (210) 679-8485; e-mail [email protected]
- Drs. Jennifer Eichert, Au.D. and Howard T. Mango, Au.D., Ph.D. Newport-Mesa Audiology Balance and Ear Institute, CA. Website: www.dizziland.com Phone (949) 274-8399
- Dr. Michael E. Hoffer, MD. Department of Otolaryngology, University of Miami. 1120 NW 14th St floor 5
- April 12, 2024: Targeted Justice held the first International Symposium "Targeted Doctors". We are thankful for our colleagues @vaxxchoice for making their online space available for this first-of-a kind symposium. Full event recording is available here. My Presentation "Thorny Road to the Diagnosis of NKBI; and criticism of most recent NIH Study published in JAMAi in 2024": https://youtu.be/zV-xIO0Tv9
Hello, my name is Len Ber MD.
I am a retired Medical Doctor who spent the last 30 years in the executive positions in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. I am one of the few civilians who was given the same diagnosis by the same group of physicians as the US Embassy personnel medevac’d from Cuba. All my attacks are domestic, highly debilitating, and resulted in my disability and early retirement. My diagnosis was further verified by a world-leading expert on neuroweapons Dr. Giordano of the Georgetown University in DC, and forwarded for further investigation to the DOD. Neither FBI nor DOD has been investigating my diagnosed case. I am one of the Plaintiffs in the historic lawsuit “Targeted Justice v. Garland”. I am a Board Member of Targeted Justice, inc.
I will be curating the content of this page, mostly dedicated to the topic of “Havana Syndrome”, but will be touching upon other topics as well. This page represents most current thinking and understanding of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury from a clinical perspective, and will be updated, as the new information becomes available.
SUMMARY:
“Havana Syndrome” is an obsolete name for Non-Kinetic Brain Injury (Injury due to intentional directed pulsed electromagnetic energy exposure). As opposed to a concussion, or mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), there are no physical objects moving, only the energy is moving, thus, the term “non-kinetic”.
Non-Kinetic Brain injury (NKBI) has not been added to the ICD-10 (most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases) yet. The closest classification code match is “Brain/intracranial injury, other, unspecified, without loss of consciousness (S06.9X0A)”.
In Military Medicine, however, there is a diagnosis attributed to intentional directed energy exposure. It’s called UBI, or Unconventionally Acquired Brain Injury. See PDF below published in the Summer of 2021.
The Government's preferred term is AHI (Anomalous Health Incident). However, it is a misnomer as far as a diagnosis. It describes an event, rather than a medical condition.
Another term, NeuroStrike, has been proposed by Robert McCreight (first in a blog in 2019, and later, in an article in The Small Wars Journal in September 2022 – see PDFs below). Once again, Neurostrike is not a name for a medical condition, but rather a term used to describe an attribute of a weapon capable of inflicting NKBI.
There are two dozen cases of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury among the Department of State and the CIA employees that were indisputably diagnosed by Dr. Hoffer and his group at the University of Miami, further referred to as The Havana Cohort. The authenticity of these validated cases are not questioned by the Medical and/or the Intelligence Community, and most plausibly attributed to "intentional exposure to directed pulsed electromagnetic energy in the microwave range."
The US Government has not recognized a single civilian case of NKBI (except for some family members who accompanied federal employees on their missions oversees), or any domestic cases among civilians or federal employees (despite multiple reports of AHIs that took place on US soil) and were also diagnosed by medical professionals.
It is important to understand that NKBI is an overarching diagnosis for what we used to colloquially call “Havana Syndrome”. Vestibular damage, cognitive impairment, behavioral changes are sequelae (consequences, manifestations, complications, or attributes) of NKBI.
Despite the perception that the symptoms of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury are general and non-specific, it has been established that the combination of its core of characteristics is distinctly unusual, is unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and has not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality, and thus manifesting a novel medical condition.
I am a retired Medical Doctor who spent the last 30 years in the executive positions in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries. I am one of the few civilians who was given the same diagnosis by the same group of physicians as the US Embassy personnel medevac’d from Cuba. All my attacks are domestic, highly debilitating, and resulted in my disability and early retirement. My diagnosis was further verified by a world-leading expert on neuroweapons Dr. Giordano of the Georgetown University in DC, and forwarded for further investigation to the DOD. Neither FBI nor DOD has been investigating my diagnosed case. I am one of the Plaintiffs in the historic lawsuit “Targeted Justice v. Garland”. I am a Board Member of Targeted Justice, inc.
I will be curating the content of this page, mostly dedicated to the topic of “Havana Syndrome”, but will be touching upon other topics as well. This page represents most current thinking and understanding of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury from a clinical perspective, and will be updated, as the new information becomes available.
SUMMARY:
“Havana Syndrome” is an obsolete name for Non-Kinetic Brain Injury (Injury due to intentional directed pulsed electromagnetic energy exposure). As opposed to a concussion, or mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury), there are no physical objects moving, only the energy is moving, thus, the term “non-kinetic”.
Non-Kinetic Brain injury (NKBI) has not been added to the ICD-10 (most recent version of the International Classification of Diseases) yet. The closest classification code match is “Brain/intracranial injury, other, unspecified, without loss of consciousness (S06.9X0A)”.
In Military Medicine, however, there is a diagnosis attributed to intentional directed energy exposure. It’s called UBI, or Unconventionally Acquired Brain Injury. See PDF below published in the Summer of 2021.
The Government's preferred term is AHI (Anomalous Health Incident). However, it is a misnomer as far as a diagnosis. It describes an event, rather than a medical condition.
Another term, NeuroStrike, has been proposed by Robert McCreight (first in a blog in 2019, and later, in an article in The Small Wars Journal in September 2022 – see PDFs below). Once again, Neurostrike is not a name for a medical condition, but rather a term used to describe an attribute of a weapon capable of inflicting NKBI.
There are two dozen cases of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury among the Department of State and the CIA employees that were indisputably diagnosed by Dr. Hoffer and his group at the University of Miami, further referred to as The Havana Cohort. The authenticity of these validated cases are not questioned by the Medical and/or the Intelligence Community, and most plausibly attributed to "intentional exposure to directed pulsed electromagnetic energy in the microwave range."
The US Government has not recognized a single civilian case of NKBI (except for some family members who accompanied federal employees on their missions oversees), or any domestic cases among civilians or federal employees (despite multiple reports of AHIs that took place on US soil) and were also diagnosed by medical professionals.
It is important to understand that NKBI is an overarching diagnosis for what we used to colloquially call “Havana Syndrome”. Vestibular damage, cognitive impairment, behavioral changes are sequelae (consequences, manifestations, complications, or attributes) of NKBI.
Despite the perception that the symptoms of Non-Kinetic Brain Injury are general and non-specific, it has been established that the combination of its core of characteristics is distinctly unusual, is unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and has not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality, and thus manifesting a novel medical condition.
KEY FINDINGS AND PUBLICATION (MOSTLY) IN THE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER:
In March 2018, an article “Neurological Manifestations Among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional Audible and Sensory Phenomena in Havana, Cuba” was published in JAMA by a group of physicians and researchers at UPenn:
The unique circumstances of these patients and the consistency of the clinical manifestations raised concern for a novel mechanism of a possible acquired brain injury from a directional exposure of undetermined etiology.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.1742
2018-march_jama.pdf
In September 2018, 3 months prior to the publication of the article “Acute Findings in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction”, Professor Michael Hoffer MD of the University of Miami summarized his findings in a lecture:
Specifically, Dr. Hoffer explains how “Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction” in The Havana Cohort patients is different from mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury).
Watch this lecture on YouTube https://youtu.be/Ocr-N2kE_LA
In December 2018, “Acute Findings in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction” article was published by the group at the University of Miami lead by Dr. Hoffer, who identified diagnostic criteria for two dozen people in The Havana Cohort.
Formal testing revealed that 100% of individuals had an otolithic abnormality constituting damage to the organs of gravity, and evidence of cognitive dysfunction.
Full article is available on PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30828629/
2018.12.12_hoffer_ansd.pdf
In July 2019, the second article from the UPenn group “Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel with Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba” was published in JAMA.
Among US government personnel in Havana, Cuba, with potential exposure to directional phenomena, compared with healthy controls, advanced brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant differences in whole brain white matter volume, regional gray and white matter volumes, cerebellar tissue microstructural integrity, and functional connectivity in the auditory and visuospatial subnetworks but not in the executive control subnetwork. The clinical importance of these differences is uncertain and may require further study.
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.9269
In December 2019, CDC issued a report “CUBA UNEXPLAINED EVENTS INVESTIGATION - FINAL REPORT - Havana, Cuba, August 2016 to March 2019”. It suggests a case definition, and a bi-phasic character of the “unexplained events”.
As, of note, the initial stage correlates with directed energy attacks, and the secondary stage correlates with a recovery stage. However, Targeted Individuals exposed to these attacks on the regular basis, never enter secondary stage due to the ongoing character of the attacks.
2019-12-03_cdc_bi-phasic_report_ocrd.pdf
Also in 2019, Robert McCreight published a blog “NeuroStrike Weapons and the Combat Domain After 2020: Caution” in which he used the term NeuroStrike for the first time.
Neurostrike weapon … entails a… RF (radiofrequency), directed energy or neurocognitive disrupter which is designed to harm, disable or permanently damage a human brain (or brains).
2019_-_neurostrike_blog_mccreight.pdf
In June 2020, a paper was published titled “Distinctive Convergence Eye Movements in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction”.
The study demonstrates how the brain injury in The Havana Cohort can be differentiated from mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury, aka concussion), using an objective computerized oculomotor test.
Full text article is available on PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32655474/
2020.06.16_balaban_distinctive_convergence.pdf
In December 2020, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, issued a Consensus Study Report titled “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies”
“…directed pulsed RF energy, especially in those with the distinct early manifestations, appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases”
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25889/an-assessment-of-illness-in-us-government-employees-and-their-families-at-overseas-embassies
In the Summer of 2021, a paper titled "Unconventionally Acquired Brain Injury" was published in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine:
If a concussive injury that induces TBI is akin to an egg falling onto the ground, a directed energy weapon inducing UBI could be more akin to putting an egg into the microwave.
2021-summer_ubi_acquired_brain_injury.pdf
In September 2022, a declassified Intelligence Community report “ANOMALOUS HEALTH INCIDENTS - Analysis of Potential Causal Mechanisms” was issued.
Although some signs and symptoms of AHIs are common in known medical conditions, the combination of the four core characteristics is distinctly unusual, is unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and so far has not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality.
Biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injury and concussion, called neurofilament light chain (NfL) protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), are also elevated in patients with AHI. Levels return to normal within a few weeks, which matches the time-course after mTBI, indicating damage to the BBB (Blood-Brain Barrier) and neural injury.
Electromagnetic energy, particularly pulsed signals in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics, although information gaps exist.
2022_september_ic_report_released_by_foia.pdf
Also in September 2022, Robert McCreight published an article “Neuro-Cognitive Warfare: Inflicting Strategic Impact via Non-Kinetic Threat” in the Small Wars Journal.
Victims of NeuroStrike attacks have experienced sustained and persistent neuro-cognitive disruptive effects which can be medically confirmed and which vary among its victims. Under existing procedures, these casualties of cognitive warfare defy facile medical definition and categorization by persons unfamiliar with the diagnostic mechanisms experts at Penn Medicine, University of Miami and the National Academy of Sciences can confirm. If you have never seen it before you don’t recognize it.
Coming to grips with the reality of a non-kinetic disabling technology which aims to specifically degrade neurological and cognitive functions requires the suspension of disbelief among those who reside in the comfortable confidence that no such weapon exists.
2022-sept_neurostrike_mccreight.pdf
In April 2022, Dr. James Giordano published in Academia Letters “Anomalous Health Incidents of the Havana Syndrome: Implications and Lessons for Global Biosecurity and Defense”. In this article, he acknowledges the existence of civilian victims (which he also articulated during the medical conference on Havana Syndrome in March 2022, held by the University of Texas).
Investigation of “Havana Syndrome” remains ongoing, and rightly so. What has become clear from investigations to date is that current and emerging biotechnologies pose significant risk and threat to public safety and national security.
2022_april_giordano_academia.pdf
In October 2023, a paper “A regulatory pathway model of neuropsychological disruption in Havana syndrome” was published in the Frontiers in Psychiatry.
The study found that Havana Syndrome symptoms may be caused by disruptions in brain networks also involved in mTBI.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1180929
2023_october_neural_pathwas.pdf
In December 2022, I published an article titled "The Inadequacy of Physician Mindset in the Era of Neuroweapons" on academia. edu and Substack.
https://www.academia.edu/102000699/The_Inadequacy_of_Physician_Mindset_in_the_Era_of_Neuroweapons
https://lenbermd.substack.com/p/the-inadequacy-of-physician-mindset
In January 2024, I presented the following lecture on NKBI (Non-Kinetic Brain Injury): "10 Myths about "Havana Syndrome" as a part of Symposium "Reality of The Targeting Program".
In March 2018, an article “Neurological Manifestations Among US Government Personnel Reporting Directional Audible and Sensory Phenomena in Havana, Cuba” was published in JAMA by a group of physicians and researchers at UPenn:
The unique circumstances of these patients and the consistency of the clinical manifestations raised concern for a novel mechanism of a possible acquired brain injury from a directional exposure of undetermined etiology.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2018.1742
2018-march_jama.pdf
In September 2018, 3 months prior to the publication of the article “Acute Findings in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction”, Professor Michael Hoffer MD of the University of Miami summarized his findings in a lecture:
Specifically, Dr. Hoffer explains how “Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction” in The Havana Cohort patients is different from mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury).
Watch this lecture on YouTube https://youtu.be/Ocr-N2kE_LA
In December 2018, “Acute Findings in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction” article was published by the group at the University of Miami lead by Dr. Hoffer, who identified diagnostic criteria for two dozen people in The Havana Cohort.
Formal testing revealed that 100% of individuals had an otolithic abnormality constituting damage to the organs of gravity, and evidence of cognitive dysfunction.
Full article is available on PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30828629/
2018.12.12_hoffer_ansd.pdf
In July 2019, the second article from the UPenn group “Neuroimaging Findings in US Government Personnel with Possible Exposure to Directional Phenomena in Havana, Cuba” was published in JAMA.
Among US government personnel in Havana, Cuba, with potential exposure to directional phenomena, compared with healthy controls, advanced brain magnetic resonance imaging revealed significant differences in whole brain white matter volume, regional gray and white matter volumes, cerebellar tissue microstructural integrity, and functional connectivity in the auditory and visuospatial subnetworks but not in the executive control subnetwork. The clinical importance of these differences is uncertain and may require further study.
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2019.9269
In December 2019, CDC issued a report “CUBA UNEXPLAINED EVENTS INVESTIGATION - FINAL REPORT - Havana, Cuba, August 2016 to March 2019”. It suggests a case definition, and a bi-phasic character of the “unexplained events”.
As, of note, the initial stage correlates with directed energy attacks, and the secondary stage correlates with a recovery stage. However, Targeted Individuals exposed to these attacks on the regular basis, never enter secondary stage due to the ongoing character of the attacks.
2019-12-03_cdc_bi-phasic_report_ocrd.pdf
Also in 2019, Robert McCreight published a blog “NeuroStrike Weapons and the Combat Domain After 2020: Caution” in which he used the term NeuroStrike for the first time.
Neurostrike weapon … entails a… RF (radiofrequency), directed energy or neurocognitive disrupter which is designed to harm, disable or permanently damage a human brain (or brains).
2019_-_neurostrike_blog_mccreight.pdf
In June 2020, a paper was published titled “Distinctive Convergence Eye Movements in an Acquired Neurosensory Dysfunction”.
The study demonstrates how the brain injury in The Havana Cohort can be differentiated from mTBI (mild traumatic brain injury, aka concussion), using an objective computerized oculomotor test.
Full text article is available on PubMed https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32655474/
2020.06.16_balaban_distinctive_convergence.pdf
In December 2020, National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, issued a Consensus Study Report titled “An Assessment of Illness in U.S. Government Employees and Their Families at Overseas Embassies”
“…directed pulsed RF energy, especially in those with the distinct early manifestations, appears to be the most plausible mechanism in explaining these cases”
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25889/an-assessment-of-illness-in-us-government-employees-and-their-families-at-overseas-embassies
In the Summer of 2021, a paper titled "Unconventionally Acquired Brain Injury" was published in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine:
If a concussive injury that induces TBI is akin to an egg falling onto the ground, a directed energy weapon inducing UBI could be more akin to putting an egg into the microwave.
2021-summer_ubi_acquired_brain_injury.pdf
In September 2022, a declassified Intelligence Community report “ANOMALOUS HEALTH INCIDENTS - Analysis of Potential Causal Mechanisms” was issued.
Although some signs and symptoms of AHIs are common in known medical conditions, the combination of the four core characteristics is distinctly unusual, is unreported elsewhere in the medical literature, and so far has not been associated with a specific neurological abnormality.
Biomarkers associated with mild traumatic brain injury and concussion, called neurofilament light chain (NfL) protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), are also elevated in patients with AHI. Levels return to normal within a few weeks, which matches the time-course after mTBI, indicating damage to the BBB (Blood-Brain Barrier) and neural injury.
Electromagnetic energy, particularly pulsed signals in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics, although information gaps exist.
2022_september_ic_report_released_by_foia.pdf
Also in September 2022, Robert McCreight published an article “Neuro-Cognitive Warfare: Inflicting Strategic Impact via Non-Kinetic Threat” in the Small Wars Journal.
Victims of NeuroStrike attacks have experienced sustained and persistent neuro-cognitive disruptive effects which can be medically confirmed and which vary among its victims. Under existing procedures, these casualties of cognitive warfare defy facile medical definition and categorization by persons unfamiliar with the diagnostic mechanisms experts at Penn Medicine, University of Miami and the National Academy of Sciences can confirm. If you have never seen it before you don’t recognize it.
Coming to grips with the reality of a non-kinetic disabling technology which aims to specifically degrade neurological and cognitive functions requires the suspension of disbelief among those who reside in the comfortable confidence that no such weapon exists.
2022-sept_neurostrike_mccreight.pdf
In April 2022, Dr. James Giordano published in Academia Letters “Anomalous Health Incidents of the Havana Syndrome: Implications and Lessons for Global Biosecurity and Defense”. In this article, he acknowledges the existence of civilian victims (which he also articulated during the medical conference on Havana Syndrome in March 2022, held by the University of Texas).
Investigation of “Havana Syndrome” remains ongoing, and rightly so. What has become clear from investigations to date is that current and emerging biotechnologies pose significant risk and threat to public safety and national security.
2022_april_giordano_academia.pdf
In October 2023, a paper “A regulatory pathway model of neuropsychological disruption in Havana syndrome” was published in the Frontiers in Psychiatry.
The study found that Havana Syndrome symptoms may be caused by disruptions in brain networks also involved in mTBI.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1180929
2023_october_neural_pathwas.pdf
In December 2022, I published an article titled "The Inadequacy of Physician Mindset in the Era of Neuroweapons" on academia. edu and Substack.
https://www.academia.edu/102000699/The_Inadequacy_of_Physician_Mindset_in_the_Era_of_Neuroweapons
https://lenbermd.substack.com/p/the-inadequacy-of-physician-mindset
In January 2024, I presented the following lecture on NKBI (Non-Kinetic Brain Injury): "10 Myths about "Havana Syndrome" as a part of Symposium "Reality of The Targeting Program".
A PDF of the Presentation Slides is available here:
In February 2024, Professor McCreight who coined the term NeuroStrike, published an article "The War Inside Our Mind: Unprotected Brain Battlefields and Neurological - Vulnerability", in which he drew our attention to other technologies used in conjunction with NeuroStrike, such as engineered nanoparticles, longitudinal waves, genetics, and non-invasive access to the brain.
Download the article PDF here.
Download the article PDF here.