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Commentary: Three questions for the study of traumatic brain injury in animals

Gregory J.S. Hollin

The Anatomical Record, 2024

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Abstract

It will likely not be news to this audience that, for much of the 21 st century, sports have been in the midst of a "concussion crisis" (e.g., Carroll & Rosner, 2012;Malcolm, 2020;Nowinski, 2007).This crisis has a number of constituent parts, including an increasing concern with the acute effects of brain injury.Nonetheless, the links between brain trauma and neurodegenerative disease-most prominently an Alzheimer's-like dementia known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE-holds centre-stage.

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