April 11, 2018
Publishing in The Lancet Psychiatry, lead author Jesse Fann, a UW professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences reports that the overall risk of dementia in individuals with a history of TBI was 24 percent higher than those without a history of TBI, after accounting for other risk factors for the disease. A single TBI characterized as “severe” increased the risk by 35 percent; a single “mild” TBI or concussion increased the risk by 17 percent.