Mild traumatic brain injury from primary blast vs. blunt forces: Post-concussion consequences and functional neuroimaging

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 397-407

  Mendez, Mario F ^a,b   Owens, Emily M ^a   Reza Berenji, Gholam ^b   Peppers, Dominique C ^b   Liang, Li Jung ^a   Licht, Eliot A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA GREATER LOS ANGELES HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

blast forces; Mild traumatic brain injury; positron emission tomography imaging; post concussion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HYPERBARISM; IRAQ; MALE; MENTAL TEST; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PACED AUDITORY SERIAL ADDITION TEST; PILOT STUDY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; RIVERMEAD POST CONCUSSION QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT FORM 36; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; WELLBEING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003 - 2011; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF REPORT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876264041     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-130861     Document Type: Article

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