Empathic deficits in combat veterans with traumatic brain injury: A voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping study

Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 160-166

  Driscoll, David M ^a,b   Dal Monte, Olga ^a,b,c   Solomon, Jeffrey ^d   Krueger, Frank ^e   Grafman, Jordan ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d Expert Image Analysis LLC   (United States)

^e GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f KESSLER FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Empathy; Prefrontal cortex; Traumatic brain injury; Voxel based lesion symptom mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EMPATHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; POSTERIOR INSULA; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VETERAN; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF REPORT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; VETERANS; VIETNAM CONFLICT;

EID: 84872114823     PISSN: 15433633     EISSN: 15370887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/WNN.0b013e318280cf4e     Document Type: Article

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