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Why does Delayed Post-hypoxic Leukoencephalopathy (DPHL) have a biphasic clinical course?
The brain is made up of oxygen-demanding gray matter and myelin-covered white matter.
Hypoxic events initially damage the gray matter, but myelin is spared. However, new myelin secretion requires ATP-...
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Subconcussive brain trauma
This all falls to a matter of degree - most importantly mechanism of injury. I'll explain the physics in allegorical terms first and then explain as it relates to medicine.
The mechanism refers to ...
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