A Brief Review of the Research Findings of Increased Risk of Dementia in Association With a Traumatic Brain Injury - Dr Linda Monaci
22/01/16. In civil law cases provisional damages can be awarded if the disease or deterioration is serious, which means beyond ordinary deterioration and if the risk of disease or deterioration has a measurable chance of occurring. It therefore follows that Solicitors’ instructions usually require the instructed experts of the field - usually Neurologists, Neuropsychologists and Neuropsychiatrists – to also comment on whether the traumatic brain injury (or other condition involving the brain) may cause any adverse long-term effect.
It is an established finding that brain injury can be associated with an increased risk for epilepsy (Lowenstein, 2009). Research has also found that repeated mild traumatic brain injuries (TBI), such as those experienced by professional boxers, are associated with a high risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), originally termed dementia pugilistica (McKee et al., 2012). It was previously thought that this condition only affected professional boxers, but recent research has found neuropathological features of this condition in retired American football players, a professional wrestler, a professional hockey player and a soccer player (McKee et al., 2009), as well as in non-athletes (Roberts et al., 1990)...
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