Persistent symptoms following mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) : Symptômes persistants consécutifs à un traumatisme cérébral léger : une ressource pour les cliniciens et le personnel

Research into new tools for examining the brain at the cellular level where axonal injury and damage occurs are improving our understanding of concussion and may lead to development of better diagnostic tests. [...] If there are clear signs or symptoms that the brain was affected at the time of the head injury, there is consensus that the brain was at least transiently injured. [...] Some experts argue that concussion and mTBI should be reserved for the acute event, and that “concussion” is a better term to use because it is more familiar to most and is less like to carry connotations of permanent damage. [...] Some parts of the brain seem to be more susceptible in concussion than others, for example frontal and temporal areas of the cortex (Ptito et al 2007). [...] Blast Injury • Blast is a rare mechanism of injury in civilian life, but is common in Afghanistan and Iraq owing to the use of explosive ambush weapons (Nechaev et al.