Domestic Violence, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Information Clearinghouse
On this webpage, you will find articles, videos, and other materials and information relevant to domestic violence (DV), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
What is Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
The Association Between DV, TBI, and CTE
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Danielsen, T., Hauch, C., Kelly, L., & White, C. L. (2021). Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)-Type Neuropathology in a Young Victim of Domestic Abuse. Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology, 80(6), 624–627. https://doi.org/10.1093/jnen/nlab015
Roberts, G. W., H. L. Whitwell, Peter R. Acland, & C. J. Bruton., (1990). Dementia in a punch-drunk wife. Lancet, 335(8694), 918–919.
This Hits Home. (2023). Gravitas Ventures. Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Tubi, PLEX, Xumo Play, Google Play Movies, Roku, AppleTBI, and other streaming services.
Tiemensma, M., Byard, R. W., Vink, R., Affleck, A. J., Blumbergs, P., & Buckland, M. E. (2024). Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in the context of longstanding intimate partner violence. Acta neuropathologica, 148(1), 1. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00401-024-02757-3
The Association Between Domestic Violence, Chronic Stress, and Neurodegeneration
What is a Concussion v. Non-Concussive Head Impacts and their Association with CTE and other Brain Diseases?
Domestic Violence-Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Epidemic
What is a Traumatic Brain Injury?
Ayton, D., Pritchard, E., & Tsindos, T. (2021). Acquired brain injury in the context of family violence: a systematic scoping review of incidence, prevalence, and contributing factors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 22(1), 3-17.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2015). Report to Congress on traumatic brain injury in the United States: Epidemiology and rehabilitation. Atlanta, GA: Author. https://www.cdc.gov/traumaticbraininjury/pdf/tbi_report_to_congress_epi_and_rehab-a.pdf
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024). Health Disparities in TBI. Traumatic Brain Injury & Concussion. https://www.cdc.gov/traumatic-brain-injury/health-equity/index.html
Costello, K., & Greenwald, B. D. (2022). Update on Domestic Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Narrative Review. Brain sciences, 12(1), 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010122
Costello, K., & Greenwald, B. D. (2022). Update on Domestic Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury: A Narrative Review. Brain sciences, 12(1), 122. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12010122
Dewan, M. C., Rattani, A., Gupta, S., Baticulon, R. E., Hung, Y. C., Punchak, M., Agrawal, A., Adeleye, A. O., Shrime, M. G., Rubiano, A. M., Rosenfeld, J. V., & Park, K. B. (2018). Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury. Journal of neurosurgery, 130(4), 1080–1097. https://doi.org/10.3171/2017.10.JNS17352
Esopenko, C., Jain, D., Adhikari, S. P., Dams-O’Connor, K., Ellis, M., Haag, H., … & Wilde, E. A. (2024). Intimate partner violence-related brain injury: unmasking and addressing the gaps. Journal of neurotrauma, 41(19-20), 2219-2237.
Liu, L. Y., Bush, W. S., Koyutürk, M., & Karakurt, G. (2020). Interplay between traumatic brain injury and intimate partner violence: data driven analysis utilizing electronic health records. BMC women’s health, 20(1), 269. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-020-01104-4
Manoranjan, B., Scott, T., Szasz, O. P., Bzovsky, S., O’Malley, L., Sprague, S., … & Turkstra, L. S. (2022). Prevalence and perception of intimate partner violence-related traumatic brain injury. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 37(1), 53-61.
Monahan, K. (2018). Intimate partner violence and traumatic brain injury: a public health issue. Journal of Neurology & Neuromedicine, 3(3). https://www.jneurology.com/articles/intimate-partner-violence-and-traumatic-brain-injury-a-public-health-issue.html
Ramesh, R., Yue, J. K., Manley, G. T., Tarapore, P. E., & DiGiorgio, A. M. (2024). Epidemiology of Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence–Related Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States, 2018 to 2021: A National Trauma Data Bank Cohort Analysis of 3891 Patients. Neurosurgery, 95(5), 1135-1147.
Obasa, A. A., Olopade, F. E., Juliano, S. L., & Olopade, J. O. (2024). Traumatic Brain Injury or Traumatic Brain Disease: A Scientific Commentary. Brain Multiphysics, 100092.
Domestic Violence, TBI, and Women
Academic Minute. (July 23, 2024). Sarah Raskin, Trinity College-Brain Injuries Aren’t Just Happening in Sports. https://academicminute.org/2024/07/sarah-raskin-trinity-college-brain-injuries-arent-just-happening-in-sports/
Fortier, C. B., Beck, B. M., Werner, K. B., Iverson, K. M., Kim, S., Currao, A., … & Galovski, T. E. (2022). The Boston assessment of traumatic brain injury-lifetime semistructured interview for assessment of TBI and subconcussive injury among female survivors of intimate partner violence: evidence of research utility and validity. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 37(3), E175-E185. https://journals.lww.com/headtraumarehab/fulltext/2022/05000/the_boston_assessment_of_traumatic_brain.13.aspx
Jackson, H., Philp, E., Nuttall, R.L. & Diller, L. (2002). Traumatic Brain Injury: A Hidden Consequence for Battered Women. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 33, 1, 39-45.
Haag, H., Jones, D., Joseph, T., & Colantonio, A. (2022). Battered and brain injured: traumatic brain injury among women survivors of intimate partner violence—a scoping review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 23(4), 1270-1287.
Karakurt, G., Whiting, K., Jones, S. E., Lowe, M. J., & Rao, S. M. (2021). Brain Injury and Mental Health Among the Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Case-Series Exploratory Study. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 710602. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.710602
Karr, J. E., Leong, S. E., & Logan, T. K. (2024). Head injury due to intimate partner violence: Injury characteristics, subacute symptoms, and receipt of care. Journal of neurotrauma, 41(3-4), 464-474. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/neu.2023.0194
Oakley, L. D., Luebke, J., Dosch, N. C., Snedden, T. R., Hernadez, H., Lemke, M., & Voland, R. P. (2021). Traumatic brain injury screening and the unmet health needs of shelter-seeking women with head injuries related to intimate partner violence. Women’s Health Reports, 2(1), 586-593.
Smirl, J. D., Jones, K. E., Copeland, P., Khatra, O., Taylor, E. H., & Van Donkelaar, P. (2019). Characterizing symptoms of traumatic brain injury in survivors of intimate partner violence. Brain Injury, 33(12), 1529-1538. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699052.2019.1658129
Rajaram, S. S., Reisher, P., Garlinghouse, M., Chiou, K. S., Higgins, K. D., New-Aaron, M., … & Smith, L. M. (2021). Intimate partner violence and brain injury screening. Violence against women, 27(10), 1548-1565.
Raskin, S. A., DeJoie, O., Edwards, C., Ouchida, C., Moran, J., White, O., … & Njoku, B. (2024). Traumatic brain injury screening and neuropsychological functioning in women who experience intimate partner violence. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 38(2), 354-376. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13854046.2023.2215489#abstract
Toccalino, D., Moore, A., Cripps, E., Gutierrez, S. C., Colantonio, A., Wickens, C. M., Chan, V., Nalder, E., & Haag, H. L. (2023). Exploring the intersection of brain injury and mental health in survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review. Frontiers in public health, 11, 1100549. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2023.1100549
Domestic Violence, TBI, and Children
Arnell, L., & Thunberg, S. (2023). Young Children’s Lives at Domestic Violence Shelters: Mothers’ Perspectives on Their Children’s Experiences. Child Adolescent Social Work Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-023-00948-7
Callaghan, J. E. M., Fellin, L. C., Mavrou, S., Alexander, J., & Sixsmith, J. (2017). The Management of Disclosure in Children’s Accounts of Domestic Violence: Practices of Telling and Not Telling. Journal of child and family studies, 26(12), 3370–3387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0832-3
Chang, Y. T., Chang, H. Y., Chen, L. W., Lu, T. H., Tsai, H. J., Chen, Y. W., … & Feng, J. Y. (2021). Incidence and characteristics of pediatric abusive head trauma in Taiwan, 2006–2015: a nationwide population-based study. Injury prevention, 27(4), 356-362.
Howard, S. (2021). Defining Child Exposure to Domestic Violence: Lessons from a Historical Review of the Literature. Greenwich Social Work Review, 2(2), 173–180. https://doi.org/10.21100/gswr.v2i2.1257
Jouriles, E. N., McDonald, R., Slep, A. M., Heyman, R. E., & Garrido, E. (2008). Child abuse in the context of domestic violence: prevalence, explanations, and practice implications. Violence and victims, 23(2), 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.23.2.221
Li, S., Zhao, F., & Yu, G. (2019). Childhood maltreatment and intimate partner violence victimization: A meta-analysis. Child abuse & neglect, 88, 212-224.
Reif, K., & Jaffe, P. (2019). Remembering the forgotten victims: Child-Related themes in domestic violence fatality reviews. Child abuse & neglect, 98, 104223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.104223
Rizo, C. F., Macy, R. J., Ermentrout, D. M., O’Brien, J., Pollock, M. D., & Dababnah, S. (2017). Research With Children Exposed to Partner Violence: Perspectives of Service-Mandated, CPS- and Court-Involved Survivors on Research With Their Children. Journal of interpersonal violence, 32(19), 2998–3026. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515596534
Sayrs, L. W., Ortiz, J. B., Notrica, D. M., Kirsch, L., Kelly, C., Stottlemyre, R., Cohen, A., Misra, S., Green, T. R., Adelson, P. D., Lifshitz, J., & Rowe, R. K. (2022). Intimate Partner Violence, Clinical Indications, and Other Family Risk Factors Associated With Pediatric Abusive Head Trauma. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(9-10), NP6785-NP6812.
Stern, J. M. (2004). Traumatic brain injury: an effect and cause of domestic violence and child abuse. Current neurology and neuroscience reports, 4(3), 179-181.
Theodorou, C. M., Nuño, M., Yamashiro, K. J., & Brown, E. G. (2021). Increased mortality in very young children with traumatic brain injury due to abuse: A nationwide analysis of 10,965 patients. Journal of pediatric surgery, 56(6), 1174–1179. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2021.02.044
Tiyyagura, G., Christian, C., Berger, R., Lindberg, D., & ExSTRA Investigators. (2018). Occult abusive injuries in children brought for care after intimate partner violence: an exploratory study. Child abuse & neglect, 79, 136-143.
Thurman D. J. (2016). The Epidemiology of Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Youths: A Review of Research Since 1990. Journal of child neurology, 31(1), 20–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0883073814544363
Domestic Violence, TBI, and Men who Abuse
Akerele, F. A., Murphy, C. M., & Williams, M. R. (2017). Are Men with a History of Head Injury Less Responsive to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence? Violence and victims, 32(3), 493–505. https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-16-00005
Farrer, T. J., Frost, R. B., & Hedges, D. W. (2012). Prevalence of traumatic brain injury in intimate partner violence offenders compared to the general population: A meta-analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 13(2), 77-82. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1524838012440338
Oliverio, R., Karelina, K., & Weil, Z. M. (2020). Sex, drugs, and TBI: the role of sex in substance abuse related to traumatic brain injuries. Frontiers in neurology, 11, 546775. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neurology/articles/10.3389/fneur.2020.546775/full
Maresca, G., Lo Buono, V., Anselmo, A., Cardile, D., Formica, C., Latella, D., Quartarone, A., & Corallo, F. (2023). Traumatic Brain Injury and Related Antisocial Behavioral Outcomes: A Systematic Review. Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 59(8), 1377. https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina59081377
Rosenbaum, A., Hoge, S. K., Adelman, S. A., Warnken, W. J., Fletcher, K. E., & Kane, R. L. (1994). Head injury in partner-abusive men. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 62(6), 1187–1193. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.62.6.1187
Rosenbaum, A., & Hoge, S. K. (1989). Head injury and marital aggression. The American journal of psychiatry, 146(8), 1048–1051. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.146.8.1048
TBI, Gender, and Sex Differences
Epstein, E. L., Martindale, S. L., Workgroup, V. M. A. M., & Miskey, H. M. (2019). Posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury: Sex differences in veterans. Psychiatry research, 274, 105-111. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178118323023
Gupte, R., Brooks, W., Vukas, R., Pierce, J., & Harris, J. (2019). Sex Differences in Traumatic Brain Injury: What We Know and What We Should Know. Journal of neurotrauma, 36(22), 3063–3091. https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2018.6171
Haynes, N., & Goodwin, T. (2023). Literature review of sex differences in mTBI. Military medicine, 188(5-6), e978-e984. https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/188/5-6/e978/6427584
Mikolić, A., Van Klaveren, D., Groeniger, J. O., Wiegers, E. J., Lingsma, H. F., Zeldovich, M., … & CENTER-TBI participants and investigators. (2021). Differences between men and women in treatment and outcome after traumatic brain injury. Journal of neurotrauma, 38(2), 235-251. https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/neu.2020.7228
Reichard, A. A., Langlois, J. A., Sample, P. L., Wald, M. M., & Pickelsimer, E. E. (2007). Violence, abuse, and neglect among people with traumatic brain injuries. The Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 22(6), 390-402. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-018-0091-y
Starkey, N. J., Duffy, B., Jones, K., Theadom, A., Barker-Collo, S., Feigin, V., & BIONIC8 Research Group. (2022). Sex differences in outcomes from mild traumatic brain injury eight years post-injury. PLoS One, 17(5), e0269101. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0269101
Domestic Violence, Marginalized Women, and TBI
Carson, S. (Feb. 24, 2023). Why immigrant women are especially vulnerable to domestic violence. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2023/02/24/why-immigrant-women-face-an-increased-risk-of-domestic-violence/69903721007/
Cimino, A. N., Yi, G., Patch, M., Alter, Y., Campbell, J. C., Gundersen, K. K., … & Stockman, J. K. (2019). The effect of intimate partner violence and probable traumatic brain injury on mental health outcomes for black women. Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma, 28(6), 714-731.
Gonzalez, Benuto, L. T., & Casas, J. B. (2020). Prevalence of interpersonal violence among Latinas: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 21(5), 977–990. https://doi.org/10.1177/1524838018806507
Gonzalez-Guarda RM, Stafford AM, Nagy GA, Befus DR, & Conklin JL (2021). A systematic review of physical health consequences and acculturation stress among Latinx individuals in the United States. Biological Research For Nursing, 23(3), 362–374. 10.1177/1099800420968889 [PubMed: 33138635]
Office of Women’s Health (OASH). (2023). Violence against immigrant and refugee women. Retrieved from https://www.womenshealth.gov/relationships-and-safety/other-types/immigrant-and-refugee-women
Rosay, A.B. (2016). Violence Against American Indian and Alaska Native Women and Men: 2010 Findings from the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. NCJ 249736.
Vega, M., Nabasny, A., & Juengst, S. B. (2020). “Descubriendo Soluciones Juntos”—An argument for adapting problem-solving training for Latinx care partners after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Rehabilitation psychology, 65(4), 337.
