Fixing Mitochondria = Fixing Brain?

I read an article about how the Mitochondria seems to play a big role in recovery of a TBI. I was reading an article about how Mitochondria is key to treating brain injuries by ABC. The article is by Denise Dador and in it she talked about a Dr. Jose Pineda, who is trying to help kids survive traumatic brain injuries and improve their recovery. His research in kids is looking at trauma to the mitochondria, the "power plant" that energizes cells in the brain. My first Psych. class was in 2002, I think, and we learned about the mitochondria, and I always figured it wasn't that big of a deal. The mitochondria are little things that doen't seem to affect too much. Or so I thought. But according to Dr. Pineda, "the mitochondria of children with brain injuries is failing, and it's failing for many, many weeks," They've been doing studies to see if stimulating the mitochondria can help the brain heal.

This seemed HUGE to me, so I did a little more research. Apparently they have been looking into the role of the Mitochondria in TBI for a LONG time. Theres an aticle about "Mitochondrial damage and dysfunction in traumatic brain injury" that can be found here on PubMed.

It makes sense to me. If you can slow down the death of cells by a super effective mitochondria, that would aid in recovery after a TBI, right? Mitochondria, step it up please!!