Discriminating military and civilian traumatic brain injuries

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 66, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 123-128

  Reid, Matthew W ^a,b   Velez, Carmen S ^b  

^a Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center   (United States)

^b San Antonio Military Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Blast exposure; Comorbidity; Military; Polytrauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARMY; BLAST INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRIEF PAIN INVENTORY; CHRONIC PAIN; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEADACHE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WHITE MATTER; ANIMAL; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; SOLDIER; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ANIMALS; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84937970375     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2015.03.014     Document Type: Review

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