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Head and Brain Injuries
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- From the National Institutes of Health
- Overviews
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Treatment
- Prevention/Screening
- Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Specific Conditions
- Related Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Research
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
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- Law and Policy
- Children
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- Information from the Medical Encyclopedia
Latest News
- Latest News
- Study Locates Brain's 'Decision Point' (05/25/2005, United Press International)
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Traumatic Brain Injury (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Traumatic Brain Injury: Hope through Research (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Overviews
- Overviews
- Brain Injury (American Academy of Neurology)
- Concussion and Brain Injury and Where to Get Help (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
Also available in: Spanish - Traumatic Brain Injury (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Types of Brain Injury (Brain Injury Association of America)
Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Diagnosis/Symptoms
- Computed Tomography (CT): Head (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
- Functional MR Imaging (fMRI): Brain (American College of Radiology, Radiological Society of North America)
- Head Trauma (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Treatment
- Treatment
- Neurosurgery - What is it?
(Patient Education Institute) - Requires Flash Player
Also available in: Spanish
Prevention/Screening
- Prevention/Screening
- Heads Up: Preventing Brain Injuries (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
Also available in: Spanish - JAMA Patient Page: Protecting against Head Injuries (American Medical Association)
- Prevention Questions (Brain Injury Association of America)
Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Becoming Well Again through&Cognitive Retraining (American Brain Tumor Association)
- Becoming Well Again through&Rehabilitative Medicine (American Brain Tumor Association)
- Becoming Well Again through&Speech Pathology Services (American Brain Tumor Association)
- Guide to Selecting and Monitoring Brain Injury Rehabilitation Services (Brain Injury Association of America)
Also available in: Spanish
Specific Conditions
- Specific Conditions
- Brain Injuries and Mass Trauma Events (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
Also available in: Spanish - Cerebral Hypoxia (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Concussion (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Intracranial Hematoma (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- JAMA Patient Page: Concussion in Sports (American Medical Association)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- Coma, Including Persistent Vegetative State (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Head Injuries: What to Watch for Afterward (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - Right Hemisphere Brain Damage (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association)
- Traumatic Brain Injury: Cognitive and Communication Disorders (National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders)
Also available in: Spanish
Clinical Trials
- Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Brain Concussion (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Brain Injuries (National Institutes of Health)
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Craniocerebral Trauma (National Institutes of Health)
Research
- Research
- Helmets Could Help Head Off Injuries in Skaters (Nemours Foundation)
- Its Just a Ding, Coach; I Can PlayBut Should He? (American Academy of Neurology)
- Knocking Noggins (Society for Neuroscience)
- Life and Death of a Neuron (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
- Traumatic Brain Injury and Transplants (Society for Neuroscience)
Anatomy/Physiology
- Anatomy/Physiology
- Atlas of the Body: The Brain -- Lobes (American Medical Association)
- Atlas of the Body: The Brain -- Side View (American Medical Association)
- Atlas of the Body: The Skull (American Medical Association)
- Brain Maps (Brain Injury Association of America)
- Ventricles of the Brain (Hydrocephalus Foundation, Inc.)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Brain and Nervous System Definitions (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Directories
- Directories
- Find a Board-Certified Neurosurgeon (American Association of Neurological Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons)
- Find a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician (American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Brain Injury Association of America
Also available in: Spanish - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Bicycle Helmet Use Laws (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) - Links to PDF
Children
- Children
- Bump on the Head: When Is It Serious? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- Concussions (Nemours Foundation)
- Head Injuries (Nemours Foundation)
- JAMA Patient Page: Inflicted Brain Injury in Children (American Medical Association)
- Shaken Baby Syndrome (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) - Short Summary
- Think First for Kids (ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation)
- Traumatic Brain Injury (National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities)
- What Is a Coma? (Nemours Foundation)
Teenagers
- Teenagers
- Concussions (Nemours Foundation)
- Think First: Teens and Young Adults (ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention Foundation)