Cerebral concussion and traumatic unconsciousness: Correlation of experimental and clinical observations on blunt head injuries

Brain

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1974, Pages 633-654

  Ommaya, Ayub K ^a,b   Gennarelli, T A ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN STEM BLEEDING; COMA; HEAD INJURY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONKEY; SKULL INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THEORETICAL STUDY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

AMNESIA; ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIENCEPHALON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; MESENCEPHALON; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0016346291     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/97.4.633     Document Type: Article

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