A Jefferson-led study of patients with mild, chronic traumatic brain injuries (concissions) “shows the potential use for cerebral blood flow and dopamine transporter imaging in the evaluation of patients with chronic head injury.”
Concussions have become a huge issue for the NFL. Week after week players go down with serious brain-jarring head injuries with little known but much hypothesized about the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Last week, Philadelphia Eagles starting quarterback Michael Vick was knocked out of the game with a concussion. Andrew Newberg, MD, more »
Dr. Jack Jallo, neurosurgeon at Jefferson, explains that researchers paid little attention to concussions until recently.