Imaging blood-brain barrier dysfunction in football players

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1453-1455

  Weissberg, Itai ^a   Veksler, Ronel ^a   Kamintsky, Lyn ^a   Saar Ashkenazy, Rotem ^a   Milikovsky, Dan Z ^a   Shelef, Ilan ^a,b   Friedman, Alon ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FOOTBALL; FRONTAL LOBE; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; FOOTBALL; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919402621     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2014.2682     Document Type: Article

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