Chronic traumatic encephalopathy - Neuropathology in athletes and war veterans

Neurological Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 290-299

  Lakis, Nelli ^a   Corona, Robert J ^a   Toshkezi, Gentian ^a   Chin, Lawrence S ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Concussion; Dementia; Neurofibrillary tangles; Tau proteinopathy; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHIATRY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RISK FACTOR; SENILE PLAQUE; TAUOPATHY; TDP 43 PROTEINOPATHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ATHLETES; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; HUMANS; VETERANS; WAR;

EID: 84875187992     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132813Y.0000000177     Document Type: Article

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