Category
page 1Traumatic brain injury
concussion
A concussion, also known as a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a head injury that temporarily affects brain functioning. Symptoms may include headache, dizziness, difficulty with thinking and concentration, sleep disturbances, a brief period of memory loss, brief loss of consciousness, problems with balance, nausea, blurred vision, and mood changes. Concussion should be suspected if a person hits their head and experiences any of the symptoms of concussion. Signs and symptoms of a concussion usually occur within minutes to hours of the injury, usually within 72 hours. However, symptoms m
traumatic brain injury
condition caused by an external force which has traumatically injured the brain
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
neurodegenerative disease caused by head injury
cerebral contusion
medical condition, bruising of the brain
diffuse axonal injury
type of traumatic brain injury
Post-traumatic amnesia
medical condition
lucid interval
clinical sign
post-traumatic epilepsy
form of acquired epilepsy
coup contrecoup injury
type of head injury
mitochondrial permeability transition pore
multiprotein inner mitochondrial complex which opens only under certain pathological conditions