Clinical subtypes of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Literature review and proposed research diagnostic criteria for traumatic encephalopathy syndrome

Alzheimer's Research and Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 5-8, 2014, Pages

  Montenigro, Philip H ^a   Baugh, Christine M ^a   Daneshvar, Daniel H ^a   Mez, Jesse ^a   Budson, Andrew E ^a,b   Au, Rhoda ^a,c   Katz, Douglas I ^a,d   Cantu, Robert C ^a,e   Stern, Robert A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^d Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital   (United States)

^e EMERSON HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANXIETY; APATHY; ATAXIA; ATAXIC GAIT; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BLUNTED AFFECT; BOXING; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLONUS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTACT SPORT; DELUSION; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DYSARTHRIA; DYSGRAPHIA; EUPHORIA; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FATIGUE; FOOTBALL; HOPELESSNESS; HUMAN; ICE HOCKEY; IMPULSIVENESS; INSOMNIA; INTELLIGENCE; IRRITABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MANIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MOOD DISORDER; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC GAIT DISORDER; PARANOIA; PARKINSONISM; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHYSICAL VIOLENCE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PSYCHOSIS; RESEARCH DIAGNOSTIC CRITERIA; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHUFFLING GAIT; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPASTIC GAIT; SPASTICITY; SPEECH DISORDER; SPORT INJURY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; TREMOR; UNSTEADY GAIT; VIOLENCE; WRESTLING;

EID: 84908410645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17589193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13195-014-0068-z     Document Type: Review

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