Evaluation of neurologic function in Gulf War veterans: A blinded case- control study

JAMA

Volumn 277, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 223-230

  Haley, Robert W ^a,c   Hom, Jim ^a,b   Roland, Peter S ^a   Bryan, Wilson W ^a   Van Ness, Paul C ^a   Bonte, Frederick J ^a   Devous, Michael D ^a   Mathews, Dana ^a   Fleckenstein, James L ^a   Wians, Frank H ^a   Wolfe, Gil I ^a   Kurt, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b The Neuropsychology Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BARANY TEST; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MYOPATHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLDIER;

EID: 0031012639     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.277.3.223     Document Type: Article

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