Repeated mild traumatic brain injury: potential mechanisms of damage

B Fehily, M Fitzgerald - Cell transplantation, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) represents a significant public healthcare concern,
accounting for the majority of all head injuries. While symptoms are generally transient …

Traumatic brain injury incidence, clinical overview, and policies in the US military health system since 2000

TM Swanson, BM Isaacson, CM Cyborski… - Public Health …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Exposure to explosive armaments during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring
Freedom contributed to approximately 14% of the 352 612 traumatic brain injury (TBI) …

Etiology of burst suppression EEG patterns

A Shanker, JH Abel, G Schamberg… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Burst-suppression electroencephalography (EEG) patterns of electrical activity,
characterized by intermittent high-power broad-spectrum oscillations alternating with …

Diffusion tensor imaging changes following mild, moderate and severe adult traumatic brain injury: a meta-analysis

EJ Wallace, JL Mathias, L Ward - Brain imaging and behavior, 2018 - Springer
Diffusion tensor imaging quantifies the asymmetry (fractional anisotropy; FA) and amount of
water diffusion (mean diffusivity/apparent diffusion coefficient; MD/ADC) and has been used …

The burden of traumatic brain injury from low-energy falls among patients from 18 countries in the CENTER-TBI Registry: A comparative cohort study

FE Lecky, O Otesile, C Marincowitz, M Majdan… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important global public health burden, where
those injured by high-energy transfer (eg, road traffic collisions) are assumed to have more …

In vivo estimates of axonal stretch and 3D brain deformation during mild head impact

AK Knutsen, AD Gomez, M Gangolli, WT Wang… - Brain multiphysics, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid deformation of brain tissue in response to head impact can lead to traumatic brain
injury. In vivo measurements of brain deformation during non-injurious head impacts are …

Volumetric MRI findings in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) and neuropsychological outcome

ED Bigler - Neuropsychology Review, 2023 - Springer
Region of interest (ROI) volumetric assessment has become a standard technique in
quantitative neuroimaging. ROI volume is thought to represent a coarse proxy for making …

Perceived chronic traumatic encephalopathy and suicidality in former professional football players

R Grashow, DP Terry, GL Iverson, H DiGregorio… - JAMA …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Participation in American-style football (ASF) has been linked to chronic
traumatic encephalopathy neuropathological change (CTE-NC), a specific neuropathologic …

White matter compromise in veterans exposed to primary blast forces

KH Taber, RA Hurley, CC Haswell… - The Journal of Head …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Use diffusion tensor imaging to investigate white matter alterations associated
with blast exposure with or without acute symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI) …

Concussion and risk of chronic medical and behavioral health comorbidities

S Izzy, Z Tahir, R Grashow, DJ Cote… - Journal of …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
While chronic neurological effects from concussion have been studied widely, little is known
about possible links between concussion and long-term medical and behavioral …