Exercise Challenge in Gulf War Illness Reveals Two Subgroups with Altered Brain Structure and Function

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rayhan, Rakib U ^a   Stevens, Benson W ^a   Raksit, Megna P ^b   Ripple, Joshua A ^a   Timbol, Christian R ^a   Adewuyi, Oluwatoyin ^a   VanMeter, John W ^a   Baraniuk, James N ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM VERMIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; GRAY MATTER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; MALE; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; POSTURAL ORTHOSTATIC TACHYCARDIA SYNDROME; SUPERIOR LONGITUDINAL BUNDLE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; VETERAN; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; ORGAN SIZE; PERSIAN GULF SYNDROME; PHYSICAL EXERTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84879039423     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063903     Document Type: Article

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