Neuronal loss in the medial cholinergic pathway from the nucleus basalis of meynert in patients with traumatic axonal injury: A preliminary diffusion tensor imaging study

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 172-176

  Hong, Ji Heon ^a   Jang, Sung Ho ^b   Kim, Oh Lyong ^b   Kim, Seong Ho ^b   Ahn, Sang Ho ^b   Byun, Woo Mok ^b   Hong, Cheol Pyo ^c   Lee, Dong Hoon ^c  

^a SunMoon University   (South Korea)

^b Yeungnam University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

brain injury; cognition; diffusion tensor imaging; diffusion tensor tractography; memory; traumatic axonal injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AXONAL INJURY; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MEAN DIFFUSIVITY; MEDIAL CHOLINERGIC PATHWAY; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRACT VOLUME; TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; AXONS; BASAL NUCLEUS OF MEYNERT; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT-TRACING TECHNIQUES; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861093726     PISSN: 08859701     EISSN: 1550509X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HTR.0b013e318217192d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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