According to a study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, traumatic brain injury MRI yields essential prognostic information by identifying patients who could have poor long-term psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes. More than 250 severe head trauma patients enrolled in this study. Each underwent a TBI brain scan within a month after their injury. Researchers collected clinical, demographic and radiological information during hospitalization. A psychiatric and neurocognitive evaluation was performed a year after.
The researchers concluded that performing an MRI after TBI allows doctors to determine essential prognostic information, with a few lesion patterns substantially linked with poor long-term psychiatric and neurocognitive outcomes.