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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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Resources
- Anoxia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Anoxia/Hypoxia (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Atlas of the Body: The Brain -- Lobes (American Medical Association)
- Atlas of the Body: The Brain -- Side View (American Medical Association)
- Atlas of the Body: The Skull (American Medical Association)
- Bicycle Helmet Use Laws (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) - Links to PDF File
- Brain and Nervous System Definitions (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Brain Injuries and Mass Trauma Events (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
- Brain Injury (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Brain Injury Association of America
- Brain Maps (Brain Injury Association of America)
- Bump on the Head: When Is It Serious? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Brain Concussion (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Brain Injuries (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Craniocerebral Trauma (National Institutes of Health)
- Coma (Cleveland Clinic)
- Coma, Including Persistent Vegetative State (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Coma, including Persistent Vegetative State (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Coma, Including Persistent Vegetative State (Cleveland Clinic)
- Computed Tomography (CT)-Head (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
- Concussion (MayoClinic)
- Concussion (Google Health)
- Concussion and Brain Injury and Where to Get Help (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
- Concussions (Nemours Foundation)
- Concussions (Nemours Foundation)
- Cumulative effect of concussion. (Google Health)
- Find a Board-Certified Neurosurgeon (American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
- First Aid for Head Injuries (National Ag Safety Database)
- Functional MR Imaging (fMRI) - Brain (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
- Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services (Brain Injury Association of America)
- Head and Brain Injuries
- Head and Brain Injuries (Medline Plus)
- Head and Brain Injuries (National Institutes of Health)
- Head Injuries (Nemours Foundation)
- Head Injuries: What to Watch for Afterward (American Academy of Family Physicians)
- Head Trauma (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Heads Up: Preventing Brain Injuries (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
- Helmets Could Help Head Off Injuries in Skaters (Nemours Foundation)
- Holoprosencephaly (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Intracranial Hematoma (MayoClinic)
- JAMA Patient Page: Concussion in Sports (American Medical Association)
- JAMA Patient Page: Inflicted Brain Injury in Children (American Medical Association)
- JAMA Patient Page: Protecting against Head Injuries (American Medical Association)
- Knocking Noggins (Society for Neuroscience)
- Life and Death of a Neuron (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
- Paced auditory serial-addition task: a measure of recovery from concussion (Google Health)
- Rehabilitation of Persons With Traumatic Brain Injury (Office of Medical Applications of Research)
- Shaken Baby Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Shaken Baby Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- The psychological effects of concussion (Google Health)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities, ED)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
- Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope Through Research (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Traumatic Brain Injury: No One Pathway to Recovery (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- What Is Neurosurgery? [Interactive Tutorial] (Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
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