Significant improvements in cognitive performance post-transcranial, red/near-infrared light-emitting diode treatments in chronic, mild traumatic brain Injury: Open-protocol study

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1008-1017

  Naeser, Margaret A ^a,b   Zafonte, Ross ^c,d   Krengel, Maxine H ^a,b   Martin, Paula I ^a,b   Frazier, Judith ^c   Hamblin, Michael R ^d   Knight, Jeffrey A ^a   Meehan, William P ^e   Baker, Errol H ^a  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Harvard Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

executive function; mTBI; photobiomodulation; treatment for mTBI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONCUSSION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LEARNING; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PILOT STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; STROOP TEST; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; INFRARED RADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFRARED RAYS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84901990083     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3244     Document Type: Article

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