Future directions in brain injury research
1Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis., and Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., USA.
Progress in Neurological Surgery
|June 14, 2014
Abstract:
This paper reviews the potential future directions that are important for brain injury research, especially with regard to concussion. The avenues of proposed research are categorized according to current concepts of concussion, types of concussion, and a global schema for globally reducing the burden of concussion.
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