What Happens to Your Brain After an Injury? A Neuroscientist Explains
When we hear the words brain injury, most of us picture themoment it happened: a hit on the football field, a car accident, a fall. But some of the most important things happen in the minutes, hours, days and weeksafter.
In this episode of Hello, Brain :), host Collin Adams sitsdown with neuroscientist Dr. Ramona von Leden, who studied traumatic brain injury in her postdoctoral research, to unpack what actually happens inside the brain after trauma, how the brain's immune system responds, and what all of itmeans for recovery.
In this episode:
• The primary injury, and the secondary injury…
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