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Hakan Ashina

Sep 23, 2026

15:31
If we talk about the effects of a traumatic brain injury on brain health, how does it matter to have a traumatic brain injury? What consequences does it have here and now, for instance, on cognition and on the risk of dementia, for instance, in later life? If you have a traumatic injury as a teenager, for instance.
15:58
It's a great question, right? It's an important question in the field.
16:03
What are the long-term consequences, especially the cognitive or neurodegenerative ones? I mean, I would say we know enough to take it seriously, but not enough to be deterministic, right? And that's an important, I would say, distinction, right? Because After traumatic brain injury, some people will develop, let's say, persistent headache, fatigue, sleep disturbances, mood symptoms, or limitations in work and daily life.
16:32
That's very widespread.
16:34
But I would say that When a brain injury occurs, for example, in a child, the question is not simply what function was lost today, right? It sort of goes to your point, right? The brain is still developing.
16:46
So we're also interested in whether the injury changes our developmental trajectory.
16:52
And we actually do know that more significant childhood brain injuries can affect cognition and function.

18 MINS LATER

35:16
But are there other things which you would like to see in a society that should be more brain-friendly and also more helpful in preventing brain injury?

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