Mechanics of the brain: perspectives, challenges, and opportunities

A Goriely, MGD Geers, GA Holzapfel… - … and modeling in …, 2015 - Springer
The human brain is the continuous subject of extensive investigation aimed at
understanding its behavior and function. Despite a clear evidence that mechanical factors …

Use of brain biomechanical models for monitoring impact exposure in contact sports

S Ji, M Ghajari, H Mao, RH Kraft… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Head acceleration measurement sensors are now widely deployed in the field to monitor
head kinematic exposure in contact sports. The wealth of impact kinematics data provides …

Brain stiffness increases with myelin content

J Weickenmeier, R de Rooij, S Budday, P Steinmann… - Acta biomaterialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Brain stiffness plays an important role in neuronal development and disease, but reported
stiffness values vary significantly for different species, for different brains, and even for …

An anatomically detailed and personalizable head injury model: Significance of brain and white matter tract morphological variability on strain

X Li, Z Zhou, S Kleiven - Biomechanics and modeling in mechanobiology, 2021 - Springer
Finite element head (FE) models are important numerical tools to study head injuries and
develop protection systems. The generation of anatomically accurate and subject-specific …

Finite element methods in human head impact simulations: a review

A Madhukar, M Ostoja-Starzewski - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2019 - Springer
Head impacts leading to traumatic brain injury (TBI) present a major health risk today,
projected to become the third leading cause of death by 2020. While finite element (FE) …

Embedded axonal fiber tracts improve finite element model predictions of traumatic brain injury

M Hajiaghamemar, T Wu, MB Panzer… - … and modeling in …, 2020 - Springer
With the growing rate of traumatic brain injury (TBI), there is an increasing interest in
validated tools to predict and prevent brain injuries. Finite element models (FEM) are …

Lateral impacts correlate with falx cerebri displacement and corpus callosum trauma in sports-related concussions

F Hernandez, C Giordano, M Goubran… - … and modeling in …, 2019 - Springer
Corpus callosum trauma has long been implicated in mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), yet
the mechanism by which forces penetrate this structure is unknown. We investigated the …

A three-dimensional computational human head model that captures live human brain dynamics

S Ganpule, NP Daphalapurkar, KT Ramesh… - Journal of …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a debilitating consequence of traumatic brain injury (TBI)
attributed to abnormal stretching of axons caused by blunt head trauma or acceleration of …

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 …

White matter tract-oriented deformation predicts traumatic axonal brain injury and reveals rotational direction-specific vulnerabilities

S Sullivan, SA Eucker, D Gabrieli, C Bradfield… - … and modeling in …, 2015 - Springer
A systematic correlation between finite element models (FEMs) and histopathology is
needed to define deformation thresholds associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). In this …