A unified science of concussion

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1208, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 58-66

  Maruta, Jun ^a   Lee, Stephanie W ^a   Jacobs, Emily F ^a   Ghajar, Jamshid ^a,b  

^a Brain Trauma Foundation   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Blast injury; Diffuse axonal injury (DAI); Prefrontal cortex; Smooth pursuit

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BLURRED VISION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONCUSSION; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIZZINESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EYE TRACKING; FATIGUE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; NAUSEA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SCIENCE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDER; TINNITUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY; OCULOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOLDIER; UNITED STATES; WAR;

AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; COMBAT DISORDERS; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 -; MILITARY PERSONNEL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149234030     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05695.x     Document Type: Article

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