Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health concern. Approximately one million people visit accident and emergency services each year following a head injury.
TBI can lead for various health outcomes and have lasting lifelong effects. Previous work to quantify links between TBI and health outcomes has mainly focused on acute conditions rather than long term conditions and has not summarised outcomes across all health domains.
The findings, now published in Nature Mental Health, suggest that longer term treatment is important after a TBI to prevent these outcomes.
Read the full story on the Department of Psychiatry website.
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