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What is a concussion? Acquired Brain Injury? Traumatic brain injury? A traumatic brain injury (or TBI) is one of the types of acquired brain injuries. This means that you acquired the trauma during your lifetime. If you have a TBI, you may have been told you have suffered either a mild TBI, moderate TBI or severe TBI. These classifications have little…

What are concussion symptoms? What is post-concussion syndrome? Due to the extensive heterogeneity in the mechanisms, severity, and neuroanatomical locations of brain injuries, symptoms can vary significantly from person to person, as well as from day to day in the same person. (This basically means every head injury is different because every person is different,…