Elevated body mass in national football league players linked to cognitive impairment and decreased prefrontal cortex and temporal pole activity

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Willeumier, K ^a   Taylor, D V ^a   Amen, D G ^a  

^a Amen Clinics   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index (BMI); cognition; prefrontal cortex; single photon computed tomography (SPECT); temporal pole; waist to height ratio (WHtR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE; VASCULARIZATION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TEMPORAL LOBE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84856237717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2011.67     Document Type: Article

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