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Study: Risk of behavioral, emotional issues in kids increases due to mild traumatic brain injury

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Washington: Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience have found that kids who experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI), even a mild one, have more emotional and behavioural problems than kids who do not.

"These hits to the head are hard to study because much of it depends on recall of an injury since the impacts do not all require a visit to a doctor," said Daniel Lopez, a PhD candidate in the Epidemiology program and first author of the study published in NeuroImage.

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