Structural Neuroimaging of Persistent or Delayed-Onset Encephalopathy Following Repetitive Concussive Brain Injuries

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16 - Structural Neuroimaging of Persistent or Delayed-Onset Encephalopathy Following Repetitive Concussive Brain Injuries

from Part III - Diagnosis and Management of Concussion

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2019

Katherine H. Taber and

Robin A. Hurley

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Jeff Victoroff and

Erin D. Bigler

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Jeff Victoroff: Affiliation:
University of Southern California, Torrance
Erin D. Bigler: Affiliation:
Brigham Young University, Utah

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The two authors of this chapter have consistently and impressively defined the cutting edge for scholarship in the ways that in vivo neuroimaging correlates with overt behaviors. This chapter complements chapter 12, taking a somewhat different approach to crystalizing current knowledge regarding visualization of late post-concussive effects. Importantly, they eschew the recent convention that presumes a homogeneous effect of one or more concussive brain injuries (CBIs) on the brain. Just as CBIs are infinitely variable in biological phenomenology, so are images of survivor's brains. Still, one expects physiological overlap between cases, and, hopefully, sufficient systematicity to enable not only differentiation between normal and not-normal, but also, some day, a taxonomy of visible abnormalities with diagnostic or therapeutic implications.

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Information: Concussion and Traumatic Encephalopathy
Causes, Diagnosis and Management
, pp. 629 - 637

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139696432.018 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2019

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