What boxing tells us about repetitive head trauma and the brain

Alzheimer's Research and Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Bernick, Charles ^a   Banks, Sarah ^a  

^a CLEVELAND CLINIC LOU RUVO CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; BODY WEIGHT; BOXING; BRAIN SIZE; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSARTHRIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GAIT DISORDER; GENETIC RISK; HEADACHE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IRRITABILITY; MEMORY DISORDER; MOOD DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARANOIA; PARKINSONISM; PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THALAMUS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84878698731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17589193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/alzrt177     Document Type: Review

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