Traumatic Brain Injury Research
Advanced neuroimaging techniques can identify intact brain networks after traumatic brain injury.
Acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) leads to more than 250,000 hospitalizations each year. Severe TBI leads to a prolonged period of unconsciousness and is associated with several pathologic brain injuries including diffuse axonal injury, brain edema and contusion. Some of the questions our faculty address include:
- How do patients recover consciousness after a severe TBI?
- What genetic, neuroimaging, and blood biomarkers can help with prognosis after TBI?
- Can new treatments prevent additional secondary injury after TBI?
Faculty Studying This Topic
Yelena Bodien, PhD
Brian Edlow, MD
W. Taylor Kimberly, MD, PhD
Jonathan Rosand, MD
Eric Rosenthal, MD
Daniel Rubin, MD, PhDCompleted and Ongoing Clinical Trials
- ASTRAL: A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of BIIB093 in participants with brain contusion
- RESPONSE 2: Resting and stimulus-based paradigms to detect organized networks and predict emergence of consciousness
- STIMPACT: Stimulant therapy targeted to individualized connectivity maps to promote reactivation of consciousness
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