A mild brain injury can have a long-term effect on children that lasts into adulthood. A study performed in Sweden showed that those who suffered at least one brain injury before the age of 25 were more likely to die early and to have problems functioning as adults....

Cognition is one aspect of your brain activity that can be affected if you suffer a traumatic brain injury. Recovering from cognitive challenges takes time and hard work; it can be expensive, which is why any settlement you consider should take into consideration your...

Traumatic brain injuries can be caused by a variety of accidents. The tie that binds them all together is that they produce effects that greatly affect the TBI patient and those close to that person. Understanding some of the common causes of TBIs might help some...

There are few injuries that can disrupt every area of life like a traumatic brain injury. While many people may assume that such injuries occur primarily in unavoidable freak accidents, there are actually many steps you can take to minimize the risk of sustaining such...

Suffering a blow to the head can lead to a traumatic brain injury. With that in mind, it would seem as though medical professionals would try to determine if someone who had been struck in the head has a traumatic brain injury when they show up for medical care. That...

The Glasgow Coma Scale is used to predict how an individual will fare after a head injury. The patient is evaluated using three parameters. The score from each one is added together to provide a total score. People who suffer a severe head injury with a GCS score...

A recent study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease is opening many eyes. According to research by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, traumatic brain injury can increase risk of mild cognitive impairment. The findings show that individuals who...

Brain injuries are getting more attention these days than they have in the past. This is thanks partly to big personal injury cases tied to NFL players and their head injuries, and also to Hollywood recently having released a movie about the subject.  But...

When people hear "brain injury, " they often assume it is some sort of traumatic injury, or "TBI," like the kind popularized on television about football. However, the majority of brain injuries are not traumatic, but they are no less dangerous or important to treat....

Eleven years after a surgeon operated on the wrong side of a patient’s brain and attempted to cover it up, the hospital where he worked has been ordered to pay $2 million to the patient and his family. Few wrong-site surgical errors could have so profound an...