Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Results in Long-Term Recovery of Functional Responsiveness in Sensory Cortex but Persisting Structural Changes and Sensorimotor, Cognitive, and Emotional Deficits

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 1333-1346

  Johnstone, Victoria P A ^a   Wright, David K ^b,c   Wong, Kendrew ^b   O'Brien, Terence J ^b   Rajan, Ramesh ^a   Shultz, Sandy R ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

barrel cortex; DTI; electrophysiology; MRI; tractography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL BRAIN INJURY; FRACTIONAL ANISOTROPY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR DEFICIT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY CORTEX; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BRAIN INJURY; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSATION DISORDERS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX;

EID: 84939615122     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3785     Document Type: Article

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