Fawzi Alice Lux, Franck Christian
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA.
Concussion. 2023 May 22;8(2):CNC109. doi: 10.2217/cnc-2023-0005. eCollection 2023 Jun.
It is commonly assumed that there is no brain injury if there are no noticeable symptoms following a head impact. There is growing evidence that traumatic brain injuries can occur with no outward symptoms and that the damage from these injuries can accumulate over time resulting in disease and impairment later in life. It is time to rethink the role that symptoms play in traumatic brain injury and adopt a quantitative understanding of brain health at the cellular level to improve the way we diagnose, prevent, and ultimately heal brain injury.
人们通常认为，如果头部撞击后没有明显症状，就不存在脑损伤。越来越多的证据表明，创伤性脑损伤可能在没有外在症状的情况下发生，而且这些损伤造成的损害会随着时间的推移而累积，导致日后出现疾病和功能障碍。是时候重新思考症状在创伤性脑损伤中所起的作用，并在细胞水平上对脑健康采用定量的理解方式，以改进我们诊断、预防并最终治愈脑损伤的方法了。
