Electroencephalography (EEG)-based detection, management, recovery and brain retraining tracking of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) when “Only Time Can Tell”

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can be caused by accidents like road traffic accidents (RTA), sports injuries, and injuries at home. It is a major health issue, very often fatal and causing high morbidity, changing the lives of both the person injured and the families involved. Anticipating and preventing secondary injury and seizures post-trauma, defining severity of TBI, predicting TBI outcomes and arousal from coma or declaration of vegetative state or brain death form pivotal checkpoints in TBI management. Other challenges faced include identifying malingerers from genuine individuals with post-TBI morbidity, defining the severity of previous TBI in the field or previous injuries when reports are lost. Depending on both its severity and location it can cause a variety of post-TBI cognitive, sensory and tactile, and motor impairments. In such instances the present paper looks at how the electroencephalographs (EEG) like NeuralScan can and do contribute uniquely and significantly aiding in assessment, continuous/periodic evaluation during the course of recovery, brain-retraining and rehabilitation in evaluating temporal changes in neuronal functionality following TBI.