Brains don't have seat belts. When rapid acceleration or deceleration of the brain inside the skull occurs with a blow to the ...

After more than half a century, assessment of acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) is getting a makeover. A newly proposed framework expands assessment of acute TBI beyond the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ...

THE DOCTOR BEHIND THIS NEW APPROACH. IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE A REGULAR BRAIN SCAN, BUT THERE IS A WHOLE NEW WAY DOCTORS ARE LOOKING AT THESE. SO BOTH PEOPLE HAVE HAD A MECHANISM FOR FOR A TRAUMATIC BRAIN ...

In the years immediately following the introduction of the GCS, many researchers examined the GCS score on admission along with other variables present in the acute stages of head injury and ...