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Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

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The continued significant societal challenge of both civilian and military traumatic brain injury (TBI) makes the development of preventive strategies ranging from primary to secondary to tertiary pressing. The invisible and visible loss of societal productivity further underscores this urgency. The clinical complexity of traumatic brain has resulted in controversy, especially in the appreciation of concussion and its sequelae with the need to clearly define terms such as mild TBI and the persistent post-concussive syndrome or symptom complex. The following overview highlights some of the key areas of the required interdisciplinary approach to TBI.

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Acknowledgments

This work was support in full by financial aid from the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO), and the Army Research Office. The authors appreciate the permission of Dr. James Smirniotopoulos, Radiology, USUHS, and Dr. Gerard Riedy, Radiology, WRAMC, for the use of the neuroimaging slide in Fig. 6. We also thank Dr. Simona Socrates for the use of Fig. 3.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not reflect the official policy of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or US Government.

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  2. Department of Neurology, University of Florida College of Medicine, University of Florida Health, Gainesville, FL, USA

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  3. Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Geoffrey Ling

  4. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Raul Radovitzky

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Moore, D.F., Jaffee, M., Ling, G., Radovitzky, R. (2020). Overview of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). In: Tsao, J. (eds) Traumatic Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22436-3_1

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