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Head and Brain Injuries |
Brain Injuries; Coma; Concussion; Skull Injuries |
Traumatic brain injury (TBI), traumatic injuries to the brain, also called intracranial injury, or simply head injury, occurs when a sudden trauma causes brain damage. TBI can result from a closed head injury or a penetrating head injury and is one of two subsets of acquired brain injury (ABI). The other subset is non-traumatic brain injury (i.e. stroke, meningitis, anoxia). Parts of the brain that can be damaged include the cerebral hemispheres, cerebellum, and brain stem (see brain damage ...
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Head and Brain Injuries Organizations
- Medline Plus http://medlineplus.gov/
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/
- National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/
- Nemours Foundation http://www.Nemours.org
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/
- American Medical Association http://www.ama-assn.org/
- American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America
- American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- Society for Neuroscience
- National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
- Brain Injury Association of America
- National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/
- Office of Medical Applications of Research http://odp.od.nih.gov/omar/
- MayoClinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/
- Cleveland Clinic http://www.clevelandclinic.org
- Google Health https://www.google.com/health
Resources
- Anoxia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Anoxia/Hypoxia (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
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