Network dysfunction after traumatic brain injury

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 156-166

  Sharp, David J ^a   Scott, Gregory ^a   Leech, Robert ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONSCIOUSNESS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRINSIC CONNECTIVITY NETWORK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE DEGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 84895926390     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2014.15     Document Type: Review

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