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A Generation Loses Consciousness, and Grows More Conscious of Headbanging in Scientific American, May 13, 2014 |By Dina Fine Maron

Excerpts:
"New work published in the May 13 issue of JAMA The Journal of the American Medical Association finds that head injuries led an estimated 2.5 million people to visit a U.S. emergency room in 2010. About one third of the cases were children, with most ER visits sparked by falls or some collision involving the head. The study adds to a growing body of data that suggests mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a larger public health problem than physicians previously knew.

U.S. emergency room visits for TBIs shot upward by almost 30 percent between 2006 and 2010. The majority of these incidents were coded in medical records as either concussion or unspecified head injury. The incidence of these TBIs climbed upward in every age group but children under three years old and adults over 60 showed the largest increases in TBI rates during that period, according to the study."

"Still, it’s clear that none of this is good news. At the hospital, Marin says, “we stabilize patients but then they go home and a lot of them will experience complications down the line.”

Article at:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-generation-loses-consciousness-and-grows-more-conscious-of-headbanging/?&WT.mc_id=SA_MB_20140514