Review: Contact sport-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the elderly: Clinical expression and structural substrates

Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 570-584

  Costanza, A ^a   Weber, K ^a   Gandy, S ^d,e   Bouras, C ^a   Hof, P R ^d   Giannakopoulos, P ^b,c   Canuto, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Boxing; Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Contact sports; Frontotemporal dementia; Traumatic brain injuries

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; NEUROGLOBIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN P53; TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN; UBIQUITIN;

ALLELE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BOXING; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; COGNITION; CONTACT SPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISORIENTATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYNDROME; FOOTBALL; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; HEAD INJURY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; ICE HOCKEY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL DISEASE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROTOXICITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUGBY; SENILE PLAQUE; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; WRESTLING;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS;

EID: 80052379673     PISSN: 03051846     EISSN: 13652990     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01186.x     Document Type: Review

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