Summary
Project Summary/Abstract The overall goal of the proposed study is to identify long-term neurobehavioral consequences of childhood mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) for the developing brain and examine their contribution to addiction risk using a rigorous cotwin-control design, longitudinal follow-up, and multimodal and innovative neuroimaging tools and neurobehavioral assessments. mTBI sustained during childhood or adolescence, periods of continuing brain development and reorganization, is a major public health problem due to its high prevalence and long-lasting neurobehavioral consequences
