Nihal C de Lanerolle, Hamada Hamid, Joseph Kulas, Jullie W Pan, Rebecca Czlapinski, Anthony Rinaldi, Geoffrey Ling, Faris A Bandak, Hoby P Hetherington
OBJECTIVE: Explosive blast mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is associated with a variety of symptoms including memory impairment and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Explosive shock waves can cause hippocampal injury in a large animal model. We recently reported a method for detecting brain injury in soldiers with explosive blast mTBI using magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI). This method is applied in the study of veterans exposed to blast. METHODS: The hippocampus of 25 veterans with explosive blast mTBI, 20 controls, and 12 subjects with PTSD but without exposure to explosive blast were studied using MRSI at 7 Tesla...
September 2014: Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology