Moderate-severe traumatic brain injury causes delayed loss of white matter integrity: Evidence of fornix deterioration in the chronic stage of injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1415-1422

  Adnan, Areeba ^a   Crawley, Adrian ^b   Mikulis, David ^b   Moscovitch, Morris ^c,d   Colella, Brenda ^a   Green, Robin ^a  

^a TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic brain injury; Diffusion tensor imaging; Fornix; Fractional anisotropy; Neurodegeneration; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEGENERATION; BRAIN FORNIX; BRAIN FORNIX DETERIORATION; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CANADA; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORNIX, BRAIN; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84885930649     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.823659     Document Type: Article

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