Traumatic encephalopathy: Review and provisional research diagnostic criteria

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 211-224

  Victoroff, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

boxing; chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Concussion; football; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA; BOXING; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; DISEASE COURSE; DSM-IV-TR; FOOTBALL; GAIT DISORDER; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NYSTAGMUS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; REVIEW; SPEECH DISORDER; SPORT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREMOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84876279489     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: 18786448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/NRE-130839     Document Type: Review

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