Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: A spectrum of neuropathological changes following repetitive brain trauma in athletes and military personnel

Alzheimer's Research and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Stein, Thor D ^a,b,c   Alvarez, Victor E ^b,c   McKee, Ann C ^a,c  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

AGGRESSION; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARMY; ASTROCYTE; ATHLETE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; BRAIN WEIGHT; CENTRAL SULCUS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIENCEPHALON; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; EXPOSURE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; IRRITABILITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NERVE FIBER; NEURITE; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOLDIER; STAGING; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TAUOPATHY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN;

EID: 84892718392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17589193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/alzrt234     Document Type: Review

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