The mechanics of cavitation-induced injury lend a better understanding of blast traumatic brain injuries
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a largely silent epidemic that affects roughly two million people each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the scale at which blast TBI (bTBI) injuries-in the spotlight as the signature wound of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan-occur and manifest is unknown.