Mapping Traumatic Brain Injuries

Depiction of uncinate fasciculus (in blue), superior cingulum (in red), and temporal cingulum (in pink) in a healthy human brain. Image from Brandstack and colleagues (2013).

BY EKATERINA DOBRYAKOVA
New OHBM Communications Committee article on HuffPost Science: 

There’s been an increasing amount of media attention to the topic of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) -bolstered in part by conversations surrounding the 2015 Hollywood blockbuster Concussion. The movie Concussion describes a particular phenomenon, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, which occurs in the brain after repeated high impact blows to the head. The diagnosis of CTE requires examining brain tissue under a microscope after death, so it can’t be diagnosed in living individuals. But in fact, there are many types of TBI, with concussion being the mildest (but most common) form. Today, brain mapping techniques are making it possible to identify TBI and track recovery. 
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