Imaging correlates of memory and concussion history in retired National Football League athletes

JAMA Neurology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 773-780

  Strain, Jeremy F ^a   Womack, Kyle B ^b,c   Didehbani, Nyaz ^a   Spence, Jeffrey S ^a   Conover, Heather ^a   Hart, John ^a,b,c   Kraut, Michael A ^a,d   Cullum, C Munro ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ATHLETE; CALIFORNIA VERBAL LEARNING TEST SCORE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCUSSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOTBALL; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE BRAIN; HIPPOCAMPAL VOLUME; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MEDICAL HISTORY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COMPLICATION; INJURIES; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ATHLETES; BRAIN CONCUSSION; COHORT STUDIES; FOOTBALL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ORGAN SIZE; RETIREMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84937554709     PISSN: 21686149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2015.0206     Document Type: Article

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