Sentences with phrase «also mild traumatic brain injury»

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* Update: A 2012 study in the journal Neurology by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic (2) also found no link between intentional heading and acute brain damage (e.g. concussion), but said that it was at least theoretically possible that it could represent a form of repetitive subthreshold mild brain injury over time and could be the cause of chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

The study also linked traumatic brain injury with the onset of neurodegenerative disorders, including mild cognitive impairment as well as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

The research could also lead to a better way to diagnose mild traumatic brain injury.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

Mild traumatic brain injury is also known as concussion.

Concussion, also called mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), represents 80 percent of TBI diagnoses among U.S. military service members, according to government estimates in 2010.

At the time of the accident, she claimed to have injured her shoulder, neck, lower back, nose, bladder, bowel, and cervix in the accident and also claimed to have suffered a mild traumatic brain injury.

Patients with moderate to severe TBI can have the same symptoms experienced by mild traumatic brain injury patients, but may also experience additional symptoms.