Canadian
Traumatic Brain
Injury Research
Consortium

The Canadian Traumatic Brain Injury Research Consortium was created in December 2015 and was initially funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation (ONF). To know more about our group, please click on the link “know more”.

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CTRC members
0 152
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0 25
Institutions
0 68
Cities
0 22

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Over half a million Canadian youth are registered in ice hockey leagues, and 10-20% of them get a concussion each year. The long-term effects of concussion and the best way to treat it are still unknown, especially in youth.

One-third of children with concussion have ongoing physical, thinking, emotional or behavioral symptoms beyond one month, known as persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS).

Early determination of prognosis in severe TBI is of great concern not only for health workers and families, but also for the society as a whole...

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