LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — According to the Mental Health Coalition, having trauma can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as other mental and medical conditions. Eric Phelps, a trauma therapist ...

TOPLINE: Serum S100B level monitoring does not reduce cranial CT (CCT) scan recommendations in children with mild head trauma; however, a post hoc analysis involving only centers that followed a ...

Of all the patients in the pTBI group, 89.5% had a concussion, and 10.5% had a specific intracranial injury, such as bleeding in the brain. The researchers found that kids with pTBI were about 15% ...

The fracture is shown in various views. The skull fracture in this specimen starts at the anterior part of the frontal bone and extends diagonally to the sagittal border of the left parietal bone.

Objective Whether concussion or mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children causes persistent symptoms more than in children with mild extracranial injuries remains unclear. This study examined the ...

In the early 1990s when I was a young pediatrician, I was responsible for evaluating children with developmental and learning problems. Two unrelated boys, ages 7 and 9, were found to have IQs in the ...

Objective: To determine the diagnostic value of physical examination (including neurologic exam) for positive computed tomography scan findings in children with closed head injury, Glasgow Coma Scale ...

Virginia Tech's Pamela VandeVord and Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine's Gunnar Brolinson recently received a $2.17 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate ...