Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injuries: Diagnosis, Assessment Tools, Management and Factors Influencing Recovery

Dear Colleagues,

There is increasing research interest in imaging and serum markers after mild and moderate traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). The clinical usefulness of emerging markers is under investigation. However, especially after a mild TBI, recovery is highly variable and many factors seem to play roles in recovery in addition to trauma itself, for example, preinjury factors, comorbidities and resilience.

Early intervention, including proper information and symptomatic treatment against headaches, neck pain, sleep disturbance, postural vertigo, visual disturbances and post-traumatic stress, is associated with faster recovery after a mild TBI. Timely interventions can inhibit secondary cognitive complications. However, when recovery is incomplete after a single mild TBI, differential diagnostics should be considered. The following questions should be asked: What factors have made the patient so vulnerable that the injury in question has been enough to precipitate incapability to return to normal life? How can these factors be addressed? What are the roles of the glymphatic system, sleep and physical exercise? On the other hand, it is also important to determine protective factors that are linked to favorable recovery after a moderate TBI.

This Special Issue of Brain Sciences, “Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injuries: Diagnosis, Assessment Tools, Management and Factors Influencing Recovery” aims to present a collection of studies detailing the latest research on the diagnosis, assessment, and management of, as well as the recovery from, mild and moderate TBIs. Authors are invited to submit relevant original research articles and review papers for inclusion.

Dr. Susanna Melkas
Guest Editor

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