Violence-related traumatic brain injury.
CONCLUSIONS: Young adult males with premorbid mental health history and chronic alcohol abuse are most prone to sustain a TBI due to a violence-related incident. Incidents are often related to alcohol intoxication. However, violence was not consistently associated with more severe TBIs than other mechanisms of injury.
PMID: 31023103 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Brain Injury - Category: Neurology Tags: Brain Inj Source Type: research
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