Traumatic Brain Injury as Chronic Disease

A review of 25 years of treating survivors of brain injury in a university of Texas medical school study, shows that brain injury is a chronic ongoing process rather than a one-time injury, as traditionally thought. The researchers hope to reclassify traumatic brain injury as a chronic disease, which will help researchers with additional funding to investigate potential cures. They stress that neurological disorders can decrease life expectancy through sleep disorders, cardiac arrhythmia, or epilepsy. The disorders lead to gradual decline in cognitive functioning, hosts of endocrine disorders, and psychiatric and psychological diseases.