A recent study depicting the slow-developing effects of an injury to the brain may change the way those brain injuries are treated.
The Brain Trauma Foundation, chaired by financier Alan Quasha, highlighted media reports of a new study published in The Journal for Nuclear Medicine (JNM), which found that the changes in brain structure and function after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) to develop and evolve for months after the actual injury occurs. Medical scientists are hypothesizing that this progressive impact could give doctors the opportunity to stop the damage before it occurs, and thus decrease the long-term neurological and cognitive effects of the TBI. The research could thus be applied towards the development of new therapies for the dealing with brain injury and its related conditions.