Effects of chronic mild traumatic brain injury on white matter integrity in iraq and afghanistan war veterans

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2986-2999

  Morey, Rajendra A ^a,b   Haswell, Courtney C ^a,b   Selgrade, Elizabeth S ^a,b   Massoglia, Dino ^a   Liu, Chunlei ^a   Weiner, Jonathan ^b   Marx, Christine E ^a,b   Cernak, Ibolja ^c   Mccarthy, Gregory ^b,d   Taber, Katherine H ^e   Hurley, Robin ^e   Hayes, Jasmeet Pannu ^e   Nasser, Jessica D ^e   Seth, Shristi ^e   Beall, Shannon K ^e   Beckham, Jean C ^e   Tupler, Larry A ^e   Weiner, Richard ^e   Fairbank, John ^e   Calhoun, Patrick S ^e   Green, Kimberly T ^e   Brancu, Mira ^e   Hoerle, Jeffrey M ^e   Pender, Mary ^e   Strauss, Jennifer L ^e   Kudler, Harold ^e   Eggleston, Angela M ^e   Guerra, Vito S ^e   Payne, Victoria ^e   McDonald, Scott D ^e   Van Voorhees, Elizabeth ^e   Davison, Rita ^e   more..

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Crossing fibers; High angular resolution diffusion imaging; Mild traumatic brain injury; Posttraumatic stress disorder; White matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BRAIN STEM; CAPSULA INTERNA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONA RADIATA (BRAIN); CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEPRESSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROGRADE AMNESIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCINATE FASCICULUS; VETERAN; WAR; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886302883     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.22117     Document Type: Article

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