Kristen Dams-O'Connor, Alan C Seifert, John F Crary, Bradley N Delman, Marc R Del Bigio, Gabor G Kovacs, Edward B Lee, Amber L Nolan, Ariel Pruyser, Enna Selmanovic, William Stewart, Emma Woodoff-Leith, Rebecca D Folkerth
Lifelong brain health consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) include the risk of neurodegenerative disease. Up to one-third of women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime, often with TBI, yet remarkably little is known about the range of autopsy neuropathologies encountered in IPV. We report a prospectively accrued case series from a single institution, the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, evaluated in partnership with the Brain Injury Research Center of Mount Sinai, using a multimodal protocol comprising clinical history review, ex vivo imaging in a small subset, and comprehensive neuropathological assessment by established consensus protocols...
December 2023: Acta Neuropathologica