Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant public health problem, on pace to become the
third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020. Moreover, emerging evidence linking …

Beginning in the 1960s many studies have been performed to investigate the mechanical
properties of brain. In this paper we point out the difficulties linked with in vitro experimental …

White matter in the brain is structurally anisotropic, consisting largely of bundles of aligned,
myelin-sheathed axonal fibers. White matter is believed to be mechanically anisotropic as …

The large strain mechanical properties of adult porcine gray and white matter brain tissues
were measured in shear and confirmed in compression. Consistent with local …

One hundred fifty years ago glial cells were discovered as a second, non-neuronal, cell type
in the central nervous system. To ascribe a function to these new, enigmatic cells, it was …

This preliminary study investigated whether direct measurement of head rotation improves
prediction of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Although many studies have implicated …

The purpose of this study was to obtain normative data using magnetic resonance
elastography (MRE)(a) to obtain estimates of the shear modulus of human cerebral tissue in …

Although many studies on the mechanical properties of brain tissue exist, some controversy
concerning the possible differences in mechanical properties of white and gray matter …

Slow, large deformations of human brain tissue—accompanying cranial vault deformation
induced by positional plagiocephaly, occurring during hydrocephalus, and in the …

A comprehensive study on the biomechanical response of human brain tissue is necessary
to investigate traumatic brain injury mechanisms. Published brain material property studies …