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- 17 -“Diffuse axonal injury occurs in about half of all severe head traumas. When acceleration or deceleration causes the brain to move within the skull, axons, the parts of the nerve cells that allow neurons to send messages between them, are disrupted.”
I was in my office at the college, hunched over my computer. I had Googled diffuse axonal injury and was reading an excerpt to Bertie who was sitting in one of my guest chairs. She had brought along Woofie who was in my other guest chair and seemed uninterested in learning about traumatic brain injury.
diffuse axonal injury“So what do they do to fix it?” Bertie asked.
I scanned down the article to Treatment. “It says that the most important thing is to reduce swelling inside the brain, which can cause additional damage. In mos
