Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Among post-9/11 United States military veterans, mild traumatic brain injury was associated with unfavorable long-term outcomes, such as severe PTSD, when occurring around a traumatic event, researchers wrote in JAMA Network Open.

ATLANTA — Primary care optometrists can manage patients with mild traumatic brain injury in their practices without the need for vision therapy equipment, Heidi Bell, OD, FAAO, FCOVD, said at SECO 2024.

Mild traumatic brain injuries may raise the risk for affective and behavioral disorders in children, according to research published in Pediatrics.

The FDA has cleared a traumatic brain injury blood test for commercial availability, paving the way for its distribution to hospitals in the United States.

Oragenics Inc. and Odyssey Health Inc. have announced an agreement under which Oragenics will acquire Odyssey’s assets related to its proprietary neurological drug therapies and technologies.

A Philadelphia-area contract research organization has announced completion of a phase 1 clinical trial of CMX-2043, Ischemix Inc.’s novel, proprietary cytoprotective drug candidate to treat acute traumatic brain injury.

Pathological CT features indicated different prognostic implications at 1 year after mild traumatic brain injury, with some injury patterns indicating worse outcomes, according to a study published in JAMA Neurology.

Findings from a prospective cohort study of patients with mild traumatic brain injury demonstrated that women were more likely than men to experience persistent cognitive and somatic symptoms related to the injury.

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Convergence insufficiency, accommodative dysfunction and visual field loss are common sequelae of traumatic brain injury in the absence of eye injury, according to a recent meta-analysis.