This review of the literature on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults focuses on incident
TBI sustained in older adulthood (“geriatric TBI”) rather than on the separate, but related …

Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are clinically grouped by severity: mild, moderate and severe.
Mild TBI (the least severe form) is synonymous with concussion and is typically caused by …

Importance Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), or concussion, in children is a rapidly growing
public health concern because epidemiologic data indicate a marked increase in the …

Importance Moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (msTBI) is a major cause of death and
disability in the US and worldwide. Few studies have enabled prospective, longitudinal …

Background More than 50 million people worldwide sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI)
annually. Detection of intracranial injuries relies on head CT, which is overused and …

Concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) are interchangeable terms to describe a
common disorder with substantial effects on public health. Advances in brain imaging, non …

Awareness of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and persisting post-concussive syndrome
(PCS) has increased substantially in the past few decades, with a corresponding increase in …

Background After traumatic brain injury (TBI), plasma concentration of glial fibrillary acidic
protein (GFAP) correlates with intracranial injury visible on CT scan. Some patients with …

Abstract Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), or concussion, is a major public health concern.
There is controversy in the literature regarding the true incidence of postconcussion …

Importance A head computed tomography (CT) with positive results for acute intracranial
hemorrhage is the gold-standard diagnostic biomarker for acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) …