Brain Injuries Epidemiology
Findings in brain injuries epidemiology reported from Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 18th, 2010
A new study, 'Traumatic brain injury affects the frontomedian cortex--an event-related fMRI study on evaluative judgments,' is now available. According to recent research from Leipzig, Germany, "Traumatic brain injuries represent the leading cause of death and disability in young adults in industrialized countries. Recently, it has been suggested that dysfunctions of the frontomedian cortex, which enables social cognition, are responsible for clinical deficits in the long-term."
"To validate this hypothesis, we examined brain activation in seven young adults suffering from diffuse axonal injury during a cognitive task that specifically depends on frontomedian...
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