Open the box: advanced biomechanical biomarkers of brain injuries

Abstract
Head loading in sporting and road traffic collisions can produces mild traumatic brain injuries. These injuries often cannot be detected with neuroimaging or biological biomarkers. Biomechanical biomarkers can be a key to managing these injuries. However current biomechanical approaches treat the brain as a blackbox. Here, we will incorporate the wiring of the brain, axons, in a detailed finite element model of the brain and test if it can predict damage to the white matter, where neurodegeneration is often seen. This computational technology will be used with sensing to predict brain injuries in sporting and road traffic collisions.

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