Abnormal white matter integrity related to head impact exposure in a season of high school varsity football

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 1617-1624

  Davenport, Elizabeth M ^a,b   Whitlow, Christopher T ^a   Urban, Jillian E ^a,b   Espeland, Mark A ^a   Jung, Youngkyoo ^a,b   Rosenbaum, Daryl A ^a   Gioia, Gerard A ^c   Powers, Alexander K ^a   Stitzel, Joel D ^a,b   Maldjian, Joseph A ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion tensor imaging; football; Head Impact Telemetry System; mild traumatic brain injury; risk weighted cumulative exposure

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FOOTBALL; HEAD IMPACT; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; IMMEDIATE POST-CONCUSSION ASSESSMENT AND COGNITIVE TESTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STIMULUS; VERBAL MEMORY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; HEAD INJURY; HELMET; INJURIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; TELEMETRY;

ADOLESCENT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FOOTBALL; HEAD PROTECTIVE DEVICES; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TELEMETRY; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84907246852     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3233     Document Type: Article

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