Research on Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Effect on Wellbeing
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 March 2023) | Viewed by 1842
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cellular and molecular mechanisms of brain injury and neuroprotection
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the World Health Organization, traumatic brain injury (TBI) has surpassed many diseases as a major cause of death and disability, becoming a major public health and medical problem. The burden of TBI is manifest through the world, and especially prominent in low-income countries, which face a higher preponderance of risk factors for causes of TBI and relatively backward medical conditions. TBI is a relatively complex disease, which will lead to structural damage and functional defects through primary and secondary injury mechanisms. Recovery is functional, constituting a process based on mechanisms that still remain uncertain. The outcomes of TBI can range from complete recovery to permanent disability or death. No two brain injuries are alike and the consequence of two similar injuries may be very different. This indicates a strong need to develop progressive research of the causes, pathophysiology, consequences and treatment of TBI. This Special Issue will encourage clinical studies, investigations, and basic research papers as well as review articles related to TBI and its affection of wellbeing. Other manuscript types that will be accepted include methodological papers, position papers, case reports, and commentaries. Here are some examples of topics that could be addressed in this Special Issue:
- New treatment strategies and approaches targeted to the heterogeneous needs of TBI populations.
- How do genetic factors affect TBI recovery?
- How to accurately predict a person's course of TBI recovery?
- Do external factors and environmental features influence TBI outcomes?
- What are the major forms of cell death after TBI?
- What are the epigenetic modifications induced by TBI?
Dr. Guohua Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- traumatic brain injury
- risk factors
- biomarkers
- epidemiology
- recovery
- Neuroprotection
- precision medicine
- environmental features
- cell death
- epigenetic modification
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