Traumatic Brain Injury as a Systems Neuroscience Problem

• Main Author: Isaac Chen (auth)
• Other Authors: John F. Burke (auth), Akiva S. Cohen (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2017
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Traumatic Brain Injury; neural circuits; neural networks; Systems neuroscience; Neuromodulation
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is traditionally viewed as an anatomic and neuropathological condition. Caring for TBI patients is a matter of defining the extent of an anatomical lesion, managing this lesion, and minimizing secondary brain injury. On the research side, the effects of TBI often are stu...