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Head injuries can age your brain by 5 years and may accelerate development of dementia, 25 March 2015

Excerpts:
"People who have suffered serious head injuries showed changes in brain structure resembling those seen in older people"

"For those with healthy brains, the average difference between predicted age and real age was zero.

But in head injury patients, the difference was significantly higher, with a bigger discrepancy in patients with more severe injuries.

Bigger differences in predicted age were associated with cognitive impairments such as poor memory and slow reaction times.

There was also a correlation between time since injury and predicted age difference.

This suggested these changes in brain structure do not occur during the injury itself, but result from ongoing biological processes, potentially similar to those seen in normal ageing, that progress more quickly after an injury."

"Dr Cole said: “Traumatic brain injury is not a static event.

“It can set off secondary processes, possibly related to inflammation, that can cause more damage in the brain for years afterwards, and may contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia."

Article at:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology-science/science/head-injuries-can-age-your-5399563