Fractional anisotropy helps predicts memory rehabilitation outcome after traumatic brain injury

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 295-310

  Strangman, Gary E ^a,b   O'Neil Pirozzi, Therese M ^b,c   Supelana, Christina ^a,b   Goldstein, Richard ^b   Katz, Douglas I ^d,e   Glenn, Mel B ^b,f  

^a Department of Psychiatry ^*  (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral neurology; brain trauma; Cognitive rehabilitation; diffusion tensor imaging; memory; semantic clustering; structural neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL PLACE AREA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REHABILITATION CARE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DECISION MAKING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872250006     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-2012-0797     Document Type: Article

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