This review addresses the acute need to acknowledge the mechanical heterogeneity of
brain matter and to accurately calibrate its local viscoelastic material properties accordingly …

Simple Summary A frequent type of injuries in traffic collisions and falls from a moderate
height is associated with subdural hematomas caused by the mechanical failure of cerebral …

Understanding the correlation between pathological changes and the type of brain injury is
pivotal in mitigating the damage and planning reliable and improved treatment strategies …

Finite Element (FE) models of brain mechanics have improved our understanding of the
brain response to rapid mechanical loads that produce traumatic brain injuries. However …

Incorporating neuroimaging-revealed structural details into finite element (FE) head models
opens vast new opportunities to better understand brain injury mechanisms. Recently …

Animal studies provide valuable insights on how the interaction of blast waves with the head
may injure the brain. However, there is no acceptable methodology to scale the findings …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a biomechanical problem where the initiating event is dynamic
loading (blunt, inertial, blast) to the head. To understand the relationship between the …

The brain contains a tree of vasculature that contributes not only oxygen and nutrients but
also structural integrity to the brain parenchyma. The structure formed by this vasculature …

Background It is well established that the probability of occurrence of acute subdural
hematomas in traumatic situations increases with age, since the main cause of such …

Multiple finite-element (FE) models to predict the biomechanical responses in the human
brain resulting from the interaction with blast waves have established the importance of …