Relationship of collegiate football experience and concussion with hippocampal volume and cognitive outcomes

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 1883-1888

  Singh, Rashmi ^a   Meier, Timothy B ^a   Kuplicki, Rayus ^a,b   Savitz, Jonathan ^a,c   Mukai, Ikuko ^a   Cavanagh, LaMont ^d   Allen, Thomas ^d   Teague, T Kent ^d,e,f   Nerio, Christopher ^c   Polanski, David ^c   Bellgowan, Patrick S F ^a,c  

^a LAUREATE INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (United States)

^b The University of Tulsa   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA TULSA   (United States)

^f OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FOOTBALL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; UNITED STATES; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ATHLETES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FOOTBALL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900303891     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.3313     Document Type: Article

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