what tests determine a brain injury
Neuropsychological assessment in mild traumatic brain injury: A clinical overview. Neuropsychological testing can help with diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation planning. Understanding the nature, the severity, and the modality of cognitive complaints is best served by a neuropsychological assessment.
An injury to the brain has both cognitive and physical components. While some imaging techniques, such as a CT Scan or an MRI study, may be able to detect physical injury to the brain as a result of trauma, many of these techniques do not asses the functional aspects of brain injury or how the brain damage impacts day to day functioning.