Impact of playing american professional football on long-term brain function

Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 98-106

  Amen, Daniel G ^a   Newberg, Andrew ^b   Thatcher, Robert ^c   Jin, Yi ^d   Wu, Joseph ^e   Keator, David ^e   Willeumier, Kristen ^a  

^a Amen Clinics Inc   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Applied Neuroscience Research Institute   (United States)

^d NeoSync Technologies   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FOOTBALL; FRONTAL CORTEX; HISTORY; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PERFUSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SLOW BRAIN WAVE; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79959452939     PISSN: 08950172     EISSN: 15457222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.neuropsych.23.1.98     Document Type: Article

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