Mild traumatic brain injury is associated with reduced cortical thickness in those at risk for Alzheimer’s disease

Brain

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 813-825

  Hayes, Jasmeet P ^a,b   Logue, Mark W ^a,b,c   Sadeh, Naomi ^a,b   Spielberg, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Verfaellie, Mieke ^b   Hayes, Scott M ^a,b   Reagan, Andrew ^a   Salat, David H ^a,d,e   Wolf, Erika J ^a,b   McGlinchey, Regina E ^a,e   Milberg, William P ^a,e   Stone, Annjanette ^f   Schichman, Steven A ^f   Miller, Mark W ^a,b  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Episodic memory; MRI; Neurodegenerative; Neuroimaging genetics; Polygenic risk score

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ALLELE; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; IRAQ; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VETERAN; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; VETERANS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85021849261     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/aww344     Document Type: Article

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