Brain Injury Healing, Secondary Damage and Regeneration

2 Brain Injury Healing, Secondary Damage and Regeneration 

Brain injuries can occur due to a wide range of internal and external factors, such as trauma, chemicals, ischaemia and haemorrhage. Unlike peripheral nervous system injury, neurons in the brain have a quite limited capacity to replace lost ones, and therefore complete functional restoration is not possible in most clinical cases. Immediately following injury, acute inflammatory response occurs accompanying the disruption of local blood vessels and death of 

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