The Implications of Recent Research on the Brain

David Hovda, PhD
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The implications of recent data about cumulative concussion, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and TBI's relationship to dementia and other diseases is alarming.

Posted on BrainLine October 24, 2011.

Produced by Noel Gunther, Ashley Gilleland, and Brain King, BrainLine.

About the author: David Hovda, PhD

David Hovda, PhD is the director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center. He is past president of the National Neurotrauma Society and past president of the International Neurotrauma Society.  He has served as chair of study sections for the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke.

David Hovda