The future research path of traumatic brain injury

Every year, more than 27 million new cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur worldwide and, in the USA alone, over 1 million people sustain a TBI. However, despite substantial progress in understanding TBI over the past decade, barriers and challenges remain in relation to the most effective preventive, acute, rehabilitative, and long-term care strategies. It is, therefore, timely that the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) have focused their attention on this public-health problem.