Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a type of traumatic brain injury (TBI). It refers to the shearing of the brain’s long connecting nerve fibers, or axons. DAI can occur during a motor vehicle accident ...

Mild hypothermia has been shown to exert apparent neuroprotective effects in animal models of diffuse axonal injury. However, the clinical efficacy of mild hypothermia is controversial. Thus, a ...

June 3, 2011 — In a new study of military personnel with blast-related subacute traumatic brain injury sustained during combat, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) detected abnormalities consistent with ...

The study covered in this summary was published on medRxiv.org as a preprint and has not yet been peer reviewed. Traumatic axonal injury is the most common consequence of head trauma and is associated ...

Axonal regeneration in the adult central nervous system is extremely limited after injury. As a consequence, there is typically little functional recovery after spinal cord injury, traumatic brain ...

Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) is a form of traumatic brain injury. It happens when the brain rapidly shifts inside the skull as an injury is occurring. The long connecting fibers in the brain called ...