Repetitive traumatic brain injury and development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: A potential role for biomarkers in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment?

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn 3 JAN, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Turner, Ryan C ^a   Lucke Wold, Brandon P ^a   Robson, Matthew J ^b   Omalu, Bennet I ^c   Petraglia, Anthony L ^d   Bailes, Julian E ^e,f  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Cte,tbi; Imaging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ATHLETE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; MONITORING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SOLDIER; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84874557074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2012.00186     Document Type: Review

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