Newly proposed framework marks a major step forward and is expected to improve care for the millions of people affected by a traumatic brain injury each year. Milwaukee, Wis.– Traumatic brain injury ...

A collaborative team led by the School of Engineering’s Haneesh Kesari works to better prevent, detect and understand ...

Abbott Laboratories ABT recently received Health Canada approval for the i-STAT TBI test cartridge for use with whole blood. It is designed to help clinicians assess suspected concussion at the ...

Health Canada has granted approval for Abbott’s i-STAT TBI test cartridge, enabling clinicians to evaluate suspected ...

More than 5.3 million Americans who have survived a traumatic brain injury live with a lifelong or long-term disability as a result. For decades, doctors used the Glasgow Coma Scale to evaluate ...

Introduction S100B serum analysis in clinical routine could reduce the number of cranial CT (CCT) scans performed on children with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Sampling should take place within ...

For this study conducted from May 2018 to November 2021, Rex and colleagues included 28 patients with chronic mild TBI from a level 1 trauma research hospital (mean age 35, 53.6% men, 64.3% white ...

With about 214,110 traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) and over 69,000 TBI-related deaths in 2021 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), understanding the physical and ...

Of the 617 participants, 36.1% reported at least one TBI with a loss of consciousness. Of those, 56.1% reported a single TBI event, 27.4% reported two TBI events, and 16.6% reported more than two.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), characterised by damage to the brain caused by a blow, bump, or jolt to the head, is estimated to affect 2.7–6.9 crore people worldwide, according to UpToDate.

Some scientists theorize that, immediately after mild TBI, the brain becomes hyperconnected, but that connectivity later dwindles and becomes lower than usual, in the long-term.

Mild traumatic brain injury increases risk of behavioral and emotional problems in kids. University of Rochester Medical Center. Journal NeuroImage DOI 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119626.