More serious closed head injuries may produce cerebral contusions (as above) that can be complicated by cerebral edema and increased intracranial pressure (ICP). Intracranial bleeding may result ...

Furthermore, ApoE deficient (knockout) mice have been shown to have memory deficits, neurochemical changes, and diminished recovery from closed head injury when compared to controls. 12 It is ...

For seven years doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong until, at West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute’s Concussion and Brain Injury Center, she was finally ...

Car crashes are the most common cause of TBIs. Motor vehicle accidents may cause both closed brain injuries (the skull is not penetrated but the brain is shaken and bruised inside of the skull ...