Frontal cerebral vulnerability and executive deficits from raised intracranial pressure in child traumatic brain injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1891-1903

  Slawik, Helen ^a,e   Salmond, Claire H ^a,b   Taylor Tavares, Joana V ^b   Williams, Guy B ^b   Sahakian, Baraba J ^a,c   Tasker, Robert C ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Child; Frontal lobe; Intracranial pressure; Traumatic brain injury; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 75449108729     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2009.0942     Document Type: Article

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