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Visual Disturbances and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)

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Over half of a human’s brain circuits are devoted to vision and eye movements, making it a system that can be easily compromised by a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). Changes in a patient’s eye movements could be a sensitive and objective biomarker of injury, and could also be useful for assessment of the pathways affected by the damage. Here, we discuss the specific dysfunctions found in afferent, efferent, and visual association pathways that may be useful for making a diagnosis of mTBI. Early diagnosis is critical to prevent further injury and to allow appropriate physical and cognitive rest to ensure full recovery, but more research is greatly needed in this area, since diagnosis of mTBI currently relies heavily on subjective complaints.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Lauren C. Ditta

  2. Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Nicole K. Weber

  3. Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Katherine E. Robinson-Freeman, Elle McKenzie, Samantha A. Thomas & Han Jun Kim

  4. College of Nursing, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Ansley Grimes Stanfill

  5. Department of Neurology, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA

    Jack W. Tsao

  6. Children’s Foundation Research Institute, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA

    Jack W. Tsao

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Ditta, L.C. et al. (2020). Visual Disturbances and Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI). In: Tsao, J. (eds) Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22436-3_12

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