NEUROTRAUMA: From Emergency Room to Back to Day-by-Day Life

• Main Author: Felipe Fregni (auth)
• Other Authors: Tiago Henrique Falk (auth), Renato Anghinah (auth), Wellingson Silva Paiva (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2019
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Medicine; Traumatic Brain Injury; Diffuse Axonal Injury; concussion; cognitive impairment
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a nondegenerative, noncongenital insult to the brain from an external mechanical force, possibly leading to permanent or temporary impairment of cognitive, physical, and psychosocial functions, with an associated diminished or altered state of consciousness. The defin...