traumatic brain injury

Table of Contents

References & Edit History Related Topics

Videos

The science behind CTE in athletes and veterans

Brainguard helmet

Discover how the brains of coma patients stimulate by hearing familiar voices of their loved ones

Read Next

pulmonary veins and arteries, circulation, cardiovascular system, human anatomy, (Netter replacement project - SSC)

13 Questions About How the Human Body Works Answered

People wearing surgical masks (also called face mask or medical masks or safety masks) walk through the city center of Milan, Italy on Feb. 23, 2020. Coronavirus disease COVID-19 pandemic

How Do Face Masks Control the Spread of Disease?

Swollen leg, Human, Foot, inflammation

How Is Inflammation Involved in Swelling?

Scanning electron micrograph showing the spiral-shaped bacteria of the genus Leptospira. These organisms cause leptospirosis.

8 Zoonotic Diseases

Scan of human brain

What Are the Symptoms of a Stroke?

Discover

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

Orange basketball on black background and with low key lighting. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)

Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

Sailboat against a beautiful landscape

Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590

The Lost Colony of Roanoke

traumatic brain injury: Related Content

Written and fact-checked by The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

News •

Vascular changes in brain trauma could trigger Alzheimer’s development • Feb. 12, 2025, 5:32 AM ET (News-Medical)

Brain receptor study offers hope for preventing epilepsy after traumatic brain injury • Jan. 28, 2025, 12:22 AM ET (Medical Xpress)

Videos

The science behind CTE in athletes and veterans

Brainguard helmet

Discover how the brains of coma patients stimulate by hearing familiar voices of their loved ones

See All Videos →

Topics

concussion subdural hematoma epidural hematoma brain neural engineering nervous system disease wound nervous system disease Alzheimer disease spinal cord injury epilepsy cephalic disorder stroke misophonia Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease split-brain syndrome encephalitis cerebral palsy

Quiz

44 Questions from Britannica’s Most Popular Health and Medicine Quizzes