White matter microstructure in chronic moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury: Impact of acute-phase injury-related variables and associations with outcome measures

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 93, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1109-1126

  Haberg A K ^a,b   Olsen, A ^a,b   Moen, K G ^a,b   Schirmer Mikalsen, K ^a,b   Visser, E ^c   Finnanger, T G ^b,d   Evensen, K A I ^a,e   Skandsen, T ^a,b   Vik, A ^a,b   Eikenes, L ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^e NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

BRIEF; Executive function; Head injury; Intensive care unit; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WHITE MATTER; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WHITE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929654547     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.23534     Document Type: Article

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