Many forms of cognitive impairment are associated with mTBI events, and among those that has been studied the most closely is attention deficit. Diagnoses of attention deficit disorders have been on the rise across all age groups, and as our understanding deepens, our approaches to treatment continue to evolve.

It likely comes as no surprise that what medicine calls “mild traumatic brain injury” (or mTBI, colloquially known as a concussion) are quite common. In fact, some of the people reading this are likely to have experienced at least one mTBI that they were never even aware of, given how common it is for such injuries to go unreported