Brain Injury as a Neurodegenerative Disorder

• Autor principal: Robin E.A. Green (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Eletrônico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• coleção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Neurosciences; Atrophy; chronic TBI; neurodegeneration; moderate-severe TBI; chronic traumatic encephalopathy
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

It has been long assumed that following the resolution of acute injuries, traumatic brain injury represents a stable neural entity. However, there is growing evidence that a single moderate-severe brain injury may instead trigger an ongoing deteriorative process that commences sub-acutely, and occur...