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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Neurosci. 2015 Oct;38(10):609–620. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.08.002

FIGURE 1. Penetrating and diffuse traumatic brain injuries have varied etiologies and experimental models.

FIGURE 1

Human traumatic brain injuries can either be penetrating/focal or diffuse in nature, with multiple etiologies falling into each of these categories. The animal models used to produce TBIs cause pathology that is in line with these two categories of injury.