Brain Injury Articles, Information & Research

Injury? A traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by a blow or jolt to the head or a penetrating head injury that disrupts the normal function of the brain. Not all blows or jolts to the head result in a...

http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/tbi/TBI.htm

Brain damage From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Brain damage , or acquired brain injury, is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells...

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This collision can bruise the brain, tear nerve fibers and cause bleeding...such as bullets or even a shattered piece of the skull entering brain tissue. The severity of traumatic brain...

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/traumatic-brain-injury/D...

Injury A traumatic brain injury occurs when an outside force impacts the head hard enough to cause the brain to move within the skull or if the force causes the skull to break and directly hurts the brain...

http://www.biausa.org/Pages/types_of_brain_injury.html

Yearly, head injury mortality rates are estimated as being 25 per 100,000 population. ... Traumatic brain injuries are classified as being primary or secondary. Primary lesions are those that arise as a direct result of the initial traumatic force...

http://www.medcyclopaedia.com/library/topics/volume_vi_1/...

Surgery is often needed in patients with more severe injury to place monitors to track and treat intracranial pressure, decompress the brain if intracranial pressure is increased, or remove intracranial hematomas. In the first few days after the injury, maintaining adequate brain perfusion and...

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec21/ch310/ch310a.html

sustain a traumatic brain injury. The impact on their families and caregivers is immense...when a blow or jolt to the head results in damage to the brain...

http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/content_node.jsp?n...

Seniors "Brain damage rarely affects just one of these systems...brain damage gets in the way of the ability to store, process, accumulate, and retrieve information. It also interferes with the ability to control emotions, to benefit from...

http://www.headinjury.com/checktbi.htm

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and spinal cord injuries account for nearly 25 percent of combat casualties. Better body armour and the use of Kevlar helmets do protect troops and they have saved the lives of many men and women in...

http://menshealth.about.com/od/conditions/a/TBI_Comat_Tro...

sustain head and brain injuries. More than half are bad enough that people must go to the hospital...The worst injuries can lead to permanent brain damage or death. Half of all TBIs are due to motor vehicle accidents...

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/traumaticbraininjury.html