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Mitsis EM, Riggio S, Kostakoglu L, Dickstein DL, Machac J, Delman B, Goldstein M, Jennings D, D'Antonio E, Martin J, Naidich TP, Aloysi A, Fernandez C, Seibyl J, DeKosky ST, Elder GA, Marek K, Gordon W, Hof PR, Sano M, Gandy S. Tauopathy PET and amyloid PET in the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathies: studies of a retired NFL player and of a man with FTD and a severe head injury. Transl Psychiatry 2014; 4:e441. [PMID: 25226550 PMCID: PMC4203018 DOI: 10.1038/tp.2014.91] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2014] [Revised: 08/12/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Single, severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) which elevates CNS amyloid, increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease (AD); while repetitive concussive and subconcussive events as observed in athletes and military personnel, may increase the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). We describe two clinical cases, one with a history of multiple concussions during a career in the National Football League (NFL) and the second with frontotemporal dementia and a single, severe TBI. Both patients presented with cognitive decline and underwent [(18)F]-Florbetapir positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for amyloid plaques; the retired NFL player also underwent [(18)F]-T807 PET imaging, a new ligand binding to tau, the main constituent of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT). Case 1, the former NFL player, was 71 years old when he presented with memory impairment and a clinical profile highly similar to AD. [(18)F]-Florbetapir PET imaging was negative, essentially excluding AD as a diagnosis. CTE was suspected clinically, and [(18)F]-T807 PET imaging revealed striatal and nigral [(18)F]-T807 retention consistent with the presence of tauopathy. Case 2 was a 56-year-old man with personality changes and cognitive decline who had sustained a fall complicated by a subdural hematoma. At 1 year post injury, [(18)F]-Florbetapir PET imaging was negative for an AD pattern of amyloid accumulation in this subject. Focal [(18)F]-Florbetapir retention was noted at the site of impact. In case 1, amyloid imaging provided improved diagnostic accuracy where standard clinical and laboratory criteria were inadequate. In that same case, tau imaging with [(18)F]-T807 revealed a subcortical tauopathy that we interpret as a novel form of CTE with a distribution of tauopathy that mimics, to some extent, that of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), despite a clinical presentation of amnesia without any movement disorder complaints or signs. A key distinguishing feature is that our patient presented with hippocampal involvement, which is more frequently seen in CTE than in PSP. In case 2, focal [(18)F]-Florbetapir retention at the site of injury in an otherwise negative scan suggests focal amyloid aggregation. In each of these complex cases, a combination of [(18)F]-fluorodeoxyglucose, [(18)F]-Florbetapir and/or [(18)F]-T807 PET molecular imaging improved the accuracy of diagnosis and prevented inappropriate interventions.
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- E M Mitsis
- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [3] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA [3] Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [4] The NFL Neurological Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- 1] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [3] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA [3] Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
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- 1] The NFL Neurological Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- 1] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Fishberg Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [3] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA
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- 1] Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [2] Mount Sinai's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [3] James J. Peters VA Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA [4] Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA [5] The NFL Neurological Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
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Goldstein LE, McKee AC, Stanton PK. Considerations for animal models of blast-related traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Alzheimers Res Ther 2014; 6:64. [PMID: 25478023 PMCID: PMC4255537 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-014-0064-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The association of military blast exposure and brain injury was first appreciated in World War I as commotio cerebri, and later as shell shock. Similar injuries sustained in modern military conflicts are now classified as mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). Recent research has yielded new insights into the mechanisms by which blast exposure leads to acute brain injury and chronic sequelae, including postconcussive syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, post-traumatic headache, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a tau protein neurodegenerative disease. Impediments to delivery of effective medical care for individuals affected by blast-related TBI include: poor insight into the heterogeneity of neurological insults induced by blast exposure; limited understanding of the mechanisms by which blast exposure injures the brain and triggers sequelae; failure to appreciate interactive injuries that affect frontal lobe function, pituitary regulation, and neurovegetative homeostasis; unknown influence of genetic risk factors, prior trauma, and comorbidities; absence of validated diagnostic criteria and clinical nosology that differentiate clinical endophenotypes; and lack of empirical evidence to guide medical management and therapeutic intervention. While clinicopathological analysis can provide evidence of correlative association, experimental use of animal models remains the primary tool for establishing causal mechanisms of disease. However, the TBI field is confronted by a welter of animal models with varying clinical relevance, thereby impeding scientific coherence and hindering translational progress. Animal models of blast TBI will be far more translationally useful if experimental emphasis focuses on accurate reproduction of clinically relevant endpoints (output) rather than scaled replication of idealized blast shockwaves (input). The utility of an animal model is dependent on the degree to which the model recapitulates pathophysiological mechanisms, neuropathological features, and neurological sequelae observed in the corresponding human disorder. Understanding the purpose of an animal model and the criteria by which experimental results derived from the model are validated are critical components for useful animal modeling. Animal models that reliably demonstrate clinically relevant endpoints will expedite development of new treatments, diagnostics, preventive measures, and rehabilitative strategies for individuals affected by blast TBI and its aftermath.
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- Lee E Goldstein
- Boston University School of Medicine and College of Engineering, 670 Albany Street, 4th Floor, Boston 02118, MA, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Robinson Hall, 7th Floor, Boston 02118, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Robinson Hall, 7th Floor, Boston 02118, MA, USA
- US Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, 150 South Huntington Avenue, Boston 02130, MA, USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Cell Biology & Anatomy, New York Medical College, Basic Science Building, Rm 217, Valhalla 10595, NY, USA
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Kelly KC, Jordan EM, Joyner AB, Burdette GT, Buckley TA. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I athletic trainers' concussion-management practice patterns. J Athl Train 2014; 49:665-73. [PMID: 25188315 DOI: 10.4085/1062-6050-49.3.25] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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CONTEXT A cornerstone of the recent consensus statements on concussion is a multifaceted concussion-assessment program at baseline and postinjury and when tracking recovery. Earlier studies of athletic trainers' (ATs') practice patterns found limited use of multifaceted protocols; however, these authors typically grouped diverse athletic training settings together. OBJECTIVE To (1) describe the concussion-management practice patterns of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I ATs, (2) compare these practice patterns to earlier studies, and (3) objectively characterize the clinical examination. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Online survey. PATIENTS OR OTHER PARTICIPANTS A total of 610 ATs from NCAA Division I institutions, for a response rate of 34.4%. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) The survey had 3 subsections: demographic questions related to the participant's experiences, concussion-assessment practice patterns, and concussion-recovery and return-to-participation practice patterns. Specific practice-pattern questions addressed balance, cognitive and mental status, neuropsychological testing, and self-reported symptoms. Finally, specific components of the clinical examination were examined. RESULTS We identified high rates of multifaceted assessments (i.e., assessments using at least 3 techniques) during testing at baseline (71.2%), acute concussion assessment (79.2%), and return to participation (66.9%). The specific techniques used are provided along with their adherence with evidence-based practice findings. Respondents endorsed a diverse array of clinical examination techniques that often overlapped objective concussion-assessment protocols or were likely used to rule out associated potential conditions. Respondents were cognizant of the Third International Consensus Statement, the National Athletic Trainers' Association position statement, and the revised NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook recommendations. CONCLUSIONS Athletic trainers in NCAA Division I demonstrated widespread use of multifaceted concussion-assessment techniques and appeared compliant with recent consensus statements and the NCAA Sports Medicine Handbook.
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- Kassandra C Kelly
- *Department of Health and Kinesiology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro
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Concannon LG, Kaufman MS, Herring SA. Counseling athletes on the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Sports Health 2014; 6:396-401. [PMID: 25177414 PMCID: PMC4137675 DOI: 10.1177/1941738114530958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Context: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a rare progressive neurologic disorder that can manifest as a combination of cognitive, mood and behavioral, and neurologic symptoms. Despite clinically apparent symptoms, there is no imaging or other diagnostic test that can confirm diagnosis in living subjects. Diagnosis can only be confirmed postmortem by specific histopathologic features within the brain tissue identified on autopsy. CTE represents a unique tauopathy that is distinct from other neurodegenerative diseases. Evidence Acquisition: PubMed was searched from 1990 to 2013 for sport concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Articles were also identified from bibliographies of recent reviews and consensus statements. Study Design: Clinical review. Level of Evidence: Level 5. Results: Although CTE is postulated to occur as a result of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury, the specific etiology and risk factors have not yet been elucidated, and postmortem diagnosis makes causality difficult to determine. Conclusion: When counseling athletes and families about the potential association of recurrent concussions and the development of CTE, discussion of proper management of concussion is cornerstone. Unfortunately, to date, there is no equipment that can prevent concussions; however, rule changes and legislation may decrease the risk. It is imperative that return to play is medically supervised by a provider trained in the management of concussion and begins only once symptoms have resolved. In addition, athletes with permanent symptoms should be retired from contact sport.
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- Leah G Concannon
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington ; Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington ; Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington ; Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in sports has been known for > 85 years, and has experienced a resurgence of interest over the past decade, both in the media and in the scientific community. However, there appears to be a disconnection between the public's perception of CTE and the currently available scientific data. The cognitive bias known as the "availability cascade" has been suggested as a reason to explain this rift in knowledge. This review summarizes and updates the history of CTE in sports, discusses recent epidemiological and autopsy studies, summarizes the evidence base related to CTE in sports, and offers recommendations for future directions.
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- Gary S Solomon
- Co-Director, Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center; Department of Neurological Surgery; Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN.
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Casson IR, Viano DC, Haacke EM, Kou Z, LeStrange DG. Is There Chronic Brain Damage in Retired NFL Players? Neuroradiology, Neuropsychology, and Neurology Examinations of 45 Retired Players. Sports Health 2014; 6:384-95. [PMID: 25177413 PMCID: PMC4137679 DOI: 10.1177/1941738114540270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Neuropathology and surveys of retired National Football League (NFL) players suggest that chronic brain damage is a frequent result of a career in football. There is limited information on the neurological statuses of living retired players. This study aimed to fill the gap in knowledge by conducting in-depth neurological examinations of 30- to 60-year-old retired NFL players. HYPOTHESIS In-depth neurological examinations of 30- to 60-year-old retired players are unlikely to detect objective clinical abnormalities in the majority of subjects. STUDY DESIGN A day-long medical examination was conducted on 45 retired NFL players, including state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging (MRI; susceptibility weighted imaging [SWI], diffusion tensor imaging [DTI]), comprehensive neuropsychological and neurological examinations, interviews, blood tests, and APOE (apolipoprotein E) genotyping. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE Level 3. METHODS Participants' histories focused on neurological and depression symptoms, exposure to football, and other factors that could affect brain function. The neurological examination included Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) evaluation of cognitive function and a comprehensive search for signs of dysarthria, pyramidal system dysfunction, extrapyramidal system dysfunction, and cerebellar dysfunction. The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) measured depression. Neuropsychological tests included pen-and-paper and ImPACT evaluation of cognitive function. Anatomical examination SWI and DTI MRI searched for brain injuries. The results were statistically analyzed for associations with markers of exposure to football and related factors, such as body mass index (BMI), ethanol use, and APOE4 status. RESULTS The retired players' ages averaged 45.6 ± 8.9 years (range, 30-60 years), and they had 6.8 ± 3.2 years (maximum, 14 years) of NFL play. They reported 6.9 ± 6.2 concussions (maximum, 25) in the NFL. The majority of retired players had normal clinical mental status and central nervous system (CNS) neurological examinations. Four players (9%) had microbleeds in brain parenchyma identified in SWI, and 3 (7%) had a large cavum septum pellucidum with brain atrophy. The number of concussions/dings was associated with abnormal results in SWI and DTI. Neuropsychological testing revealed isolated impairments in 11 players (24%), but none had dementia. Nine players (20%) endorsed symptoms of moderate or severe depression on the BDI and/or met criteria for depression on PHQ; however, none had dementia, dysarthria, parkinsonism, or cerebellar dysfunction. The number of football-related concussions was associated with isolated abnormalities on the clinical neurological examination, suggesting CNS dysfunction. The APOE4 allele was present in 38% of the players, a larger number than would be expected in the general male population (23%-26%). CONCLUSION MRI lesions and neuropsychological impairments were found in some players; however, the majority of retired NFL players had no clinical signs of chronic brain damage. CLINICAL RELEVANCE These results need to be reconciled with the prevailing view that a career in football frequently results in chronic brain damage.
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- Ira R. Casson
- Department of Neurology, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York
- Department of Neurology, Hofstra North Shore–LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, New York
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- ProBiomechanics LLC, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan
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- Emergency Nursing and Clinical Outreach, Lawrence Hospital Center, Bronxville, New York
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Kroshus E, Baugh CM, Hawrilenko M, Daneshvar DH. Pilot Randomized Evaluation of Publically Available Concussion Education Materials. HEALTH EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR 2014; 42:153-62. [DOI: 10.1177/1090198114543011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Many states and sports leagues are instituting concussion policies aimed at reducing risk of morbidity and mortality; many include mandates about the provision of concussion education to youth athletes. However, there is limited evidence if educational materials provided under these typically vague mandates are in fact effective in changing concussion risk-related behavior or any cognition predictive of risk-related behavior. The purpose of this pilot randomized controlled study was to conduct a theory-driven evaluation of three publically available concussion education materials: two videos and one informational handout. Participants were 256 late adolescent males from 12 teams in a single league of ice hockey competition in the United States. Randomization of educational condition occurred at the team level. Written surveys assessing postimpact symptom reporting behavior, concussion knowledge, and concussion reporting cognitions were completed by participants immediately before receiving their educational intervention, 1 day after, and 1 month after. Results indicated no change in any measure over any time interval, with the exception of perceived underreporting norms. In one of the video conditions, perceived underreporting norms increased significantly 1 day after viewing the video. Possible content and viewing environment-related reasons for this increase are discussed. Across all conditions, perceived underreporting norms increased 1 month after intervention receipt, raising the possibility that late in the competitive season underreporting may be perceived as normative. The need for the development of theory-driven concussion education materials, drawing on best practices from health behavior scholars, is discussed.
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Despite the growing awareness of mild traumatic brain injury in military and civilian populations, understanding of the acute and chronic effects of concussion on central nervous system structure and function is limited. Even less is understood about the underpinnings of the cardinal postconcussive symptom, post-traumatic headache (PTH). Here, we review recent advances in PTH, with special emphasis on the migraine-like phenotype, the most disabling form. Considerations for future research in PTH are discussed, including diagnostic classification, and applications with advanced neuroimaging techniques, biomarkers, and treatments.
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Appocher C, Klima R, Feiguin F. Functional screening in Drosophila reveals the conserved role of REEP1 in promoting stress resistance and preventing the formation of Tau aggregates. Hum Mol Genet 2014; 23:6762-72. [DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Simulation, fabrication and impact testing of a novel football helmet padding system that decreases rotational acceleration. SPORTS ENGINEERING 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12283-014-0160-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Lee M, McGeer E, McGeer PL. Activated human microglia stimulate neuroblastoma cells to upregulate production of beta amyloid protein and tau: implications for Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis. Neurobiol Aging 2014; 36:42-52. [PMID: 25169677 DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2014.07.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2014] [Revised: 07/19/2014] [Accepted: 07/21/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Neuroinflammation is hypothesized to be a major driving force behind Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. This hypothesis predicts that activated microglial cells can stimulate neurons to produce excessive amounts of β-amyloid protein (Aβ₁₋₄₂) and tau. The excess Aβ₁₋₄₂ forms extracellular deposits which stimulate further microglial activation. The excess tau is partially released but also becomes phosphorylated forming intracellular neurofibrillary deposits. The end result is a positive feedback mechanism which drives the disease development. To test the viability of this hypothesis, we exposed differentiated SH-SY5Y and N-tera2/D1 (N-tera2) cells to conditioned medium (CM) from LPS/IFNγ-stimulated human microglia. We found that the CM caused a large increase in the production and release of Aβ and tau. The CM also caused SH-SY5Y cells to increase their expression of amyloid precursor protein and release of its β-secretase cleaved products (sAPPβs) as well as Aβ oligomers, but the CM reduced release of its α-secretase cleaved products (sAPPαs). Direct treatment of SH-SY5Y and N-tera2 cells with the inflammatory cytokines IL-6 and IL-1β as well as with Aβ₁₋₄₂, resulted in an increase in tau messenger RNA and protein expression. Pretreatment of LPS/IFNγ-stimulated human microglia cells with the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs ibuprofen and aspirin, the antioxidant GSH, the H₂S donor NaSH, and the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10, resulted in a CM with diminished ability to stimulate tau expression. There was no effect on the morphology of SH-SY5Y cells, or on their viability, following exposure to micromolar levels of Aβ₁₋₄₂. Our data indicate that reactive microglia play an important role in governing the expression of Aβ and tau, and therefore the progression of AD. They provide further evidence that appropriate anti-inflammatory treatment should be beneficial in AD.
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- Moonhee Lee
- Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Repeated Head Injuries in Australia’s Collision Sports Highlight Ethical and Evidential Gaps in Concussion Management Policies. NEUROETHICS-NETH 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12152-014-9217-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Bennett RE, Brody DL. Acute reduction of microglia does not alter axonal injury in a mouse model of repetitive concussive traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma 2014; 31:1647-63. [PMID: 24797413 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3320] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The pathological processes that lead to long-term consequences of multiple concussions are unclear. Primary mechanical damage to axons during concussion is likely to contribute to dysfunction. Secondary damage has been hypothesized to be induced or exacerbated by inflammation. The main inflammatory cells in the brain are microglia, a type of macrophage. This research sought to determine the contribution of microglia to axon degeneration after repetitive closed-skull traumatic brain injury (rcTBI) using CD11b-TK (thymidine kinase) mice, a valganciclovir-inducible model of macrophage depletion. Low-dose (1 mg/mL) valganciclovir was found to reduce the microglial population in the corpus callosum and external capsule by 35% after rcTBI in CD11b-TK mice. At both acute (7 days) and subacute (21 days) time points after rcTBI, reduction of the microglial population did not alter the extent of axon injury as visualized by silver staining. Further reduction of the microglial population by 56%, using an intermediate dose (10 mg/mL), also did not alter the extent of silver staining, amyloid precursor protein accumulation, neurofilament labeling, or axon injury evident by electron microscopy at 7 days postinjury. Longer treatment of CD11b-TK mice with intermediate dose and treatment for 14 days with high-dose (50 mg/mL) valganciclovir were both found to be toxic in this injury model. Altogether, these data are most consistent with the idea that microglia do not contribute to acute axon degeneration after multiple concussive injuries. The possibility of longer-term effects on axon structure or function cannot be ruled out. Nonetheless, alternative strategies directly targeting injury to axons may be a more beneficial approach to concussion treatment than targeting secondary processes of microglial-driven inflammation.
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- Rachel E Bennett
- Department of Neurology, Washington University , St. Louis, Missouri
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Baugh CM, Robbins CA, Stern RA, McKee AC. Current understanding of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Curr Treat Options Neurol 2014; 16:306. [PMID: 25023937 DOI: 10.1007/s11940-014-0306-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OPINION STATEMENT Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a unique neurodegenerative disease found in individuals with a history of repetitive head impacts. The neuropathology of CTE is increasingly well defined. Prospective, longitudinal studies with post-mortem neuropathologic validation as well as in vivo diagnostic techniques are needed in order to advance the understanding of CTE clinically. Given the large number of individuals who incur concussions and other forms of brain trauma, this is an important area for scientific and public health inquiry.
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- Christine M Baugh
- Boston University School of Medicine, CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University School of Medicine, CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston, MA, USA.,Department of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.,VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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Haegerich TM, Dahlberg LL, Simon TR, Baldwin GT, Sleet DA, Greenspan AI, Degutis LC. Prevention of injury and violence in the USA. Lancet 2014; 384:64-74. [PMID: 24996591 PMCID: PMC4710475 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(14)60074-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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In the first three decades of life, more individuals in the USA die from injuries and violence than from any other cause. Millions more people survive and are left with physical, emotional, and financial problems. Injuries and violence are not accidents; they are preventable. Prevention has a strong scientific foundation, yet efforts are not fully implemented or integrated into clinical and community settings. In this Series paper, we review the burden of injuries and violence in the USA, note effective interventions, and discuss methods to bring interventions into practice. Alliances between the public health community and medical care organisations, health-care providers, states, and communities can reduce injuries and violence. We encourage partnerships between medical and public health communities to consistently frame injuries and violence as preventable, identify evidence-based interventions, provide scientific information to decision makers, and strengthen the capacity of an integrated health system to prevent injuries and violence.
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- Tamara M Haegerich
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA, USA
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Glushakova OY, Johnson D, Hayes RL. Delayed Increases in Microvascular Pathology after Experimental Traumatic Brain Injury Are Associated with Prolonged Inflammation, Blood–Brain Barrier Disruption, and Progressive White Matter Damage. J Neurotrauma 2014; 31:1180-93. [DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Johnson LSM. Sport-Related Neurotrauma and Neuroprotection: Are Return-to-Play Protocols Justified by Paternalism? NEUROETHICS-NETH 2014. [DOI: 10.1007/s12152-014-9213-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Neselius S, Brisby H, Marcusson J, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Karlsson T. Neurological assessment and its relationship to CSF biomarkers in amateur boxers. PLoS One 2014; 9:e99870. [PMID: 24941067 PMCID: PMC4062456 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2014] [Accepted: 05/20/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) or concussion is common in many sports. Today, neuropsychological evaluation is recommended in the monitoring of a concussion and in return-to-play considerations. To investigate the sensitivity of neuropsychological assessment, we tested amateur boxers post bout and compared with controls. Further the relationship between neuropsychological test results and brain injury biomarkers in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were investigated. Method Thirty amateur boxers on high elite level with a minimum of 45 bouts and 25 non-boxing matched controls were included. Memory tests (Rey Osterrieth Complex Figure, Listening Span, Digit Span, Controlled Word Association Test, and computerized testing of episodic memory), tests of processing speed and executive functions (Trail Making, Reaction Time, and Finger Tapping) were performed and related to previously published CSF biomarker results for the axonal injury marker neurofilament light (NFL). Results The neurological assessment showed no significant differences between boxers and controls, although elevated CSF NFL, as a sign of axonal injury, was detected in about 80% of the boxers 1–6 days post bout. The investigation of the relationship between neuropsychological evaluation and CSF NFL concentrations revealed that boxers with persisting NFL concentration elevation after at least 14 days resting time post bout, had a significantly poorer performance on Trail Making A (p = 0.041) and Simple Reaction Time (p = 0.042) compared to other boxers. Conclusion This is the first study showing traumatic axonal brain injury can be present without measureable cognitive impairment. The repetitive, subconcussive head trauma in amateur boxing causes axonal injury that can be detected with analysis of CSF NFL, but is not sufficient to produce impairment in memory tests, tests of processing speed, or executive functions. The association of prolonged CSF NFL increase in boxers with impairment of processing speed is an interesting observation, which needs to be verified in larger studies.
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- Sanna Neselius
- Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Institute for Clinical Sciences, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Institute for Clinical Sciences, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Geriatric Section, University Hospital in Linköping, Linköping, Sweden
- Institution of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
- UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, United Kingdom
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- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden
- Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Disability Research, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Linnaeus Centre HEAD, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
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Petraglia AL, Plog BA, Dayawansa S, Chen M, Dashnaw ML, Czerniecka K, Walker CT, Viterise T, Hyrien O, Iliff JJ, Deane R, Nedergaard M, Huang JH. The spectrum of neurobehavioral sequelae after repetitive mild traumatic brain injury: a novel mouse model of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. J Neurotrauma 2014; 31:1211-24. [PMID: 24766454 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2013.3255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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There has been an increased focus on the neurological sequelae of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly neurodegenerative syndromes, such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE); however, no animal model exists that captures the behavioral spectrum of this phenomenon. We sought to develop an animal model of CTE. Our novel model is a modification and fusion of two of the most popular models of TBI and allows for controlled closed-head impacts to unanesthetized mice. Two-hundred and eighty 12-week-old mice were divided into control, single mild TBI (mTBI), and repetitive mTBI groups. Repetitive mTBI mice received six concussive impacts daily for 7 days. Behavior was assessed at various time points. Neurological Severity Score (NSS) was computed and vestibulomotor function tested with the wire grip test (WGT). Cognitive function was assessed with the Morris water maze (MWM), anxiety/risk-taking behavior with the elevated plus maze, and depression-like behavior with the forced swim/tail suspension tests. Sleep electroencephalogram/electromyography studies were performed at 1 month. NSS was elevated, compared to controls, in both TBI groups and improved over time. Repetitive mTBI mice demonstrated transient vestibulomotor deficits on WGT. Repetitive mTBI mice also demonstrated deficits in MWM testing. Both mTBI groups demonstrated increased anxiety at 2 weeks, but repetitive mTBI mice developed increased risk-taking behaviors at 1 month that persist at 6 months. Repetitive mTBI mice exhibit depression-like behavior at 1 month. Both groups demonstrate sleep disturbances. We describe the neurological sequelae of repetitive mTBI in a novel mouse model, which resemble several of the neuropsychiatric behaviors observed clinically in patients sustaining repetitive mild head injury.
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- Anthony L Petraglia
- 1 Department of Neurosurgery, University of Rochester Medical Center , Rochester, New York
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Mez J, Stern RA, McKee AC. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: where are we and where are we going? Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep 2014; 13:407. [PMID: 24136455 DOI: 10.1007/s11910-013-0407-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE, previously called punch drunk and dementia pugilistica) has a rich history in the medical literature in association with boxing, but has only recently been recognized with other contact sports, such as football and ice hockey, as well as with military blast injuries. CTE is thought to be a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated concussive and subconcussive blows to the head. There is characteristic gross and microscopic pathology found in the brain, including frontal and temporal atrophy, axonal degeneration, and hyperphosphorylated tau and TAR DNA-binding protein 43 pathology. Clinically, there are characteristic progressive deficits in cognition (memory, executive dysfunction), behavior (explosivity, aggression), mood (depression, suicidality), and motor function (parkinsonism), which correlate with the anatomic distribution of brain pathology. While CTE shares clinical and neuropathological traits with other neurodegenerative diseases, the clinical syndrome and the neuropathology as a whole are distinct from other neurodegenerative diseases. Here we review the CTE literature to date. We also draw on the literature from mild traumatic brain injury and other neurodegenerative dementias, particularly when these studies provide guidance for future CTE research. We conclude by suggesting seven essential areas for future CTE research.
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- Jesse Mez
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite 7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA,
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Over the past 35 years or so, PET brain imaging has allowed powerful and unique insights into brain function under normal conditions and in disease states. Initially, as PET instrumentation continued to develop, studies were focused on brain perfusion and glucose metabolism. This permitted refinement of brain imaging for important, non-oncologic clinical indications. The ability of PET to not only provide spatial localization of metabolic changes but also to accurately and consistently quantify their distribution proved valuable for applications in the clinical setting. Specifically, glucose metabolism brain imaging using (F-18) fluorodeoxyglucose continues to be invaluable for evaluating patients with intractable seizures for identifying seizure foci and operative planning. Cerebral glucose metabolism also contributes to diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases that cause dementia. Alzheimer disease, dementia with Lewy bodies, and the several variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration have differing typical patterns of hypometabolism. In Alzheimer disease, hypometabolism has furthermore been associated with poorer cognitive performance and ensuing cognitive and functional decline. As the field of radiochemistry evolved, novel radioligands including radiolabeled flumazenil, dopamine transporter ligands, nicotine receptor ligands, and others have allowed for further understanding of molecular changes in the brain associated with various diseases. Recently, PET brain imaging reached another milestone with the approval of (F-18) florbetapir imaging by the United States Federal Drug Administration for detection of amyloid plaque accumulation in brain, the major histopathologic hallmark of Alzheimer disease, and efforts have been made to define the clinical role of this imaging agent in the setting of the currently limited treatment options. Hopefully, this represents the first of many new radiopharmaceuticals that would allow improved diagnostic and prognostic information in these and other clinical applications, including Parkinson disease and traumatic brain injury.
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- Ilya Nasrallah
- Division of Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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Robbins CA, Daneshvar DH, Picano JD, Gavett BE, Baugh CM, Riley DO, Nowinski CJ, McKee AC, Cantu RC, Stern RA. Self-reported concussion history: impact of providing a definition of concussion. Open Access J Sports Med 2014; 5:99-103. [PMID: 24891816 PMCID: PMC4019619 DOI: 10.2147/oajsm.s58005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Background In recent years, the understanding of concussion has evolved in the research and medical communities to include more subtle and transient symptoms. The accepted definition of concussion in these communities has reflected this change. However, it is unclear whether this shift is also reflected in the understanding of the athletic community. What is known about the subject Self-reported concussion history is an inaccurate assessment of someone’s lifetime exposure to concussive brain trauma. However, unfortunately, in many cases it is the only available tool. Hypothesis/purpose We hypothesize that athletes’ self-reported concussion histories will be significantly greater after reading them the current definition of concussion, relative to the reporting when no definition was provided. An increase from baseline to post-definition response will suggest that athletes are unaware of the currently accepted medical definition. Study design Cross-sectional study of 472 current and former athletes. Methods Investigators conducted structured telephone interviews with current and former athletes between January 2010 and January 2013, asking participants to report how many concussions they had received in their lives. Interviewers then read participants a current definition of concussion, and asked them to re-estimate based on that definition. Results The two estimates were significantly different (Wilcoxon signed rank test: z=15.636, P<0.001). Comparison of the baseline and post-definition medians (7 and 15, respectively) indicated that the post-definition estimate was approximately twice the baseline. Follow-up analyses indicated that this effect was consistent across all levels of competition examined and across type of sport (contact versus non-contact). Conclusion Our results indicate that athletes’ current understandings of concussions are not consistent with a currently accepted medical definition. We strongly recommend that clinicians and researchers preface requests for self-reported concussion history with a definition. In addition, it is extremely important that researchers report the definition they used in published manuscripts of their work. What this study adds to existing knowledge Our study shows that unprompted reporting of concussion history produces results that are significantly different from those provided after a definition has been given, suggesting one possible mechanism to improve the reliability of self-reported concussion history across multiple individuals.
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- Clifford A Robbins
- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Sports Legacy Institute, Waltham MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; United States Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Pathology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Sports Legacy Institute, Waltham MA, USA ; Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA
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- Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA ; Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Bazarian JJ, Zhu T, Zhong J, Janigro D, Rozen E, Roberts A, Javien H, Merchant-Borna K, Abar B, Blackman EG. Persistent, long-term cerebral white matter changes after sports-related repetitive head impacts. PLoS One 2014; 9:e94734. [PMID: 24740265 PMCID: PMC3989251 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2014] [Accepted: 03/18/2014] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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INTRODUCTION Repetitive head impacts (RHI) sustained in contact sports are thought to be necessary for the long-term development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Our objectives were to: 1) characterize the magnitude and persistence of RHI-induced white matter (WM) changes; 2) determine their relationship to kinematic measures of RHI; and 3) explore their clinical relevance. METHODS Prospective, observational study of 10 Division III college football players and 5 non-athlete controls during the 2011-12 season. All subjects underwent diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), physiologic, cognitive, and balance testing at pre-season (Time 1), post-season (Time 2), and after 6-months of no-contact rest (Time 3). Head impact measures were recorded using helmet-mounted accelerometers. The percentage of whole-brain WM voxels with significant changes in fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) from Time 1 to 2, and Time 1 to 3 was determined for each subject and correlated to head impacts and clinical measures. RESULTS Total head impacts for the season ranged from 431-1,850. No athlete suffered a clinically evident concussion. Compared to controls, athletes experienced greater changes in FA and MD from Time 1 to 2 as well as Time 1 to 3; most differences at Time 2 persisted to Time 3. Among athletes, the percentage of voxels with decreased FA from Time 1 to 2 was positively correlated with several helmet impact measures. The persistence of WM changes from Time 1 to 3 was also associated with changes in serum ApoA1 and S100B autoantibodies. WM changes were not consistently associated with cognition or balance. CONCLUSIONS A single football season of RHIs without clinically-evident concussion resulted in WM changes that correlated with multiple helmet impact measures and persisted following 6 months of no-contact rest. This lack of WM recovery could potentially contribute to cumulative WM changes with subsequent RHI exposures.
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- Jeffrey J. Bazarian
- Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Imaging Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Imaging Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America
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- Athletics and Recreation, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, United States of America
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- Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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- Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
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Huber BR, Meabon JS, Martin TJ, Mourad PD, Bennett R, Kraemer BC, Cernak I, Petrie EC, Emery MJ, Swenson ER, Mayer C, Mehic E, Peskind ER, Cook DG. Blast exposure causes early and persistent aberrant phospho- and cleaved-tau expression in a murine model of mild blast-induced traumatic brain injury. J Alzheimers Dis 2014; 37:309-23. [PMID: 23948882 DOI: 10.3233/jad-130182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 117] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is considered the 'signature injury' of combat veterans that have served during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This prevalence of mTBI is due in part to the common exposure to high explosive blasts in combat zones. In addition to the threats of blunt impact trauma caused by flying objects and the head itself being propelled against objects, the primary blast overpressure (BOP) generated by high explosives is capable of injuring the brain. Compared to other means of causing TBI, the pathophysiology of mild-to-moderate BOP is less well understood. To study the consequences of BOP exposure in mice, we employed a well-established approach using a compressed gas-driven shock tube that recapitulates battlefield-relevant open-field BOP. We found that 24 hours post-blast a single mild BOP provoked elevation of multiple phospho- and cleaved-tau species in neurons, as well as elevating manganese superoxide-dismutase (MnSOD or SOD2) levels, a cellular response to oxidative stress. In hippocampus, aberrant tau species persisted for at least 30 days post-exposure, while SOD2 levels returned to sham control levels. These findings suggest that elevated phospho- and cleaved-tau species may be among the initiating pathologic processes induced by mild blast exposure. These findings may have important implications for efforts to prevent blast-induced insults to the brain from progressing into long-term neurodegenerative disease processes.
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- Bertrand R Huber
- Northwest Network Mental Illness, Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA, USA
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Prions are proteins that acquire alternative conformations that become self-propagating. Transformation of proteins into prions is generally accompanied by an increase in β-sheet structure and a propensity to aggregate into oligomers. Some prions are beneficial and perform cellular functions, whereas others cause neurodegeneration. In mammals, more than a dozen proteins that become prions have been identified, and a similar number has been found in fungi. In both mammals and fungi, variations in the prion conformation encipher the biological properties of distinct prion strains. Increasing evidence argues that prions cause many neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, and Lou Gehrig's diseases, as well as the tauopathies. The majority of NDs are sporadic, and 10% to 20% are inherited. The late onset of heritable NDs, like their sporadic counterparts, may reflect the stochastic nature of prion formation; the pathogenesis of such illnesses seems to require prion accumulation to exceed some critical threshold before neurological dysfunction manifests.
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- Stanley B Prusiner
- Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases and Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, California 94143;
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Turner RC, VanGilder RL, Naser ZJ, Lucke-Wold BP, Bailes JE, Matsumoto RR, Huber JD, Rosen CL. Elucidating the severity of preclinical traumatic brain injury models: a role for functional assessment? Neurosurgery 2014; 74:382-94; discussion 394. [PMID: 24448183 PMCID: PMC4890645 DOI: 10.1227/neu.0000000000000292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Concussion remains a symptom-based diagnosis clinically, yet preclinical studies investigating traumatic brain injury, of which concussion is believed to represent a "mild" form, emphasize histological end points with functional assessments often minimized or ignored all together. Recently, clinical studies have identified the importance of cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms, in addition to somatic concerns, following concussion. How these findings may translate to preclinical studies is unclear at present. OBJECTIVE To address the contrasting end points used clinically compared with those in preclinical studies and the potential role of functional assessments in a commonly used model of diffuse axonal injury (DAI). METHODS Animals were subjected to DAI by the use of the impact-acceleration model. Functional and behavioral assessments were conducted during 1 week following DAI before the completion of the histological assessment at 1 week post-DAI. RESULTS We show, despite the suggestion that this model represents concussive injury, no functional impairments as determined by using the common measures of motor, sensorimotor, cognitive, and neuropsychiatric function following injury over the course of 1 week. The lack of functional deficits is in sharp contrast to neuropathological findings indicating neural degeneration, astrocyte reactivity, and microglial activation. CONCLUSION Future studies are needed to identify functional assessments, neurophysiologic techniques, and imaging assessments more apt to distinguish differences following so-called "mild" traumatic brain injury in preclinical models and determine whether these models are truly studying concussive or subconcussive injury. These studies are needed not only to understand the mechanism of injury and production of subsequent deficits, but also to rigorously evaluate potential therapeutic agents.
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- Ryan C. Turner
- Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- Department of Nursing, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, NorthShore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
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- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- Department of Basic Pharmaceutical Sciences, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, West Virginia
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- Department of Neurosurgery, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
- The Center for Neuroscience, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, West Virginia
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Corser-Jensen CE, Goodell DJ, Freund RK, Serbedzija P, Murphy RC, Farias SE, Dell'Acqua ML, Frey LC, Serkova N, Heidenreich KA. Blocking leukotriene synthesis attenuates the pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury and associated cognitive deficits. Exp Neurol 2014; 256:7-16. [PMID: 24681156 DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2014.03.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2013] [Revised: 02/14/2014] [Accepted: 03/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Neuroinflammation is a component of secondary injury following traumatic brain injury (TBI) that can persist beyond the acute phase. Leukotrienes are potent, pro-inflammatory lipid mediators generated from membrane phospholipids. In the absence of injury, leukotrienes are undetectable in the brain, but after trauma they are rapidly synthesized by a transcellular event involving infiltrating neutrophils and endogenous brain cells. Here, we investigate the efficacy of MK-886, an inhibitor of 5-lipoxygenase activating protein (FLAP), in blocking leukotriene synthesis, secondary brain damage, synaptic dysfunction, and cognitive impairments after TBI. Male Sprague Dawley rats (9-11weeks) received either MK-886 or vehicle after they were subjected to unilateral moderate fluid percussion injury (FPI) to assess the potential clinical use of FLAP inhibitors for TBI. MK-886 was also administered before FPI to determine the preventative potential of FLAP inhibitors. MK-886 given before or after injury significantly blocked the production of leukotrienes, measured by reverse-phase liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (RP LC-MS/MS), and brain edema, measured by T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MK-886 significantly attenuated blood-brain barrier disruption in the CA1 hippocampal region and deficits in long-term potentiation (LTP) at CA1 hippocampal synapses. The prevention of FPI-induced synaptic dysfunction by MK-886 was accompanied by fewer deficits in post-injury spatial learning and memory performance in the radial arm water maze (RAWM). These results indicate that leukotrienes contribute significantly to secondary brain injury and subsequent cognitive deficits. FLAP inhibitors represent a novel anti-inflammatory approach for treating human TBI that is feasible for both intervention and prevention of brain injury and neurologic deficits.
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- Chelsea E Corser-Jensen
- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA; Department of Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
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Raji CA, Tarzwell R, Pavel D, Schneider H, Uszler M, Thornton J, van Lierop M, Cohen P, Amen DG, Henderson T. Clinical utility of SPECT neuroimaging in the diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury: a systematic review. PLoS One 2014; 9:e91088. [PMID: 24646878 PMCID: PMC3960124 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0091088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2013] [Accepted: 02/10/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Purpose This systematic review evaluated the clinical utility of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods After defining a PICO Statement (Population, Intervention, Comparison and Outcome Statement), PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) criteria were applied to identify 1600 articles. After screening, 374 articles were eligible for review. Inclusion for review was focus on SPECT in the setting of mild, moderate, or severe TBI with cerebral lobar specificity of SPECT findings. Other inclusion criteria were comparison modalities in the same subjects and articles in English. Foreign language articles, SPECT studies that did not include comparison modalities, and case reports were not included for review. Results We identified 19 longitudinal and 52 cross-sectional studies meeting inclusion criteria. Three longitudinal studies examined diagnostic predictive value. The first showed positive predictive value increases from initial SPECT scan shortly after trauma to one year follow up scans, from 59% to 95%. Subsequent work replicated these results in a larger cohort. Longitudinal and cross sectional studies demonstrated SPECT lesion localization not detected by CT or MRI. The most commonly abnormal regions revealed by SPECT in cross-sectional studies were frontal (94%) and temporal (77%) lobes. SPECT was found to outperform both CT and MRI in both acute and chronic imaging of TBI, particularly mild TBI. It was also found to have a near 100% negative predictive value. Conclusions This review demonstrates Level IIA evidence (at least one non-randomized controlled trial) for the value of SPECT in TBI. Given its advantages over CT and MRI in the detection of mild TBI in numerous studies of adequate quality, and given its excellent negative predictive value, it may be an important second test in settings where CT or MRI are negative after a closed head injury with post-injury neurological or psychiatric symptoms.
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- Cyrus A. Raji
- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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- University of British Columbia School of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- PathFinder Brain SPECT, Deerfield, Illinois, United States of America
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- St. Johns Health Center, Santa Monica, California, United States of America
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- Rossiter-Thornton Associates, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Lions Gate Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Amen Clinics, Inc., Newport Beach, California, United States of America
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Angoa-Pérez M, Kane MJ, Briggs DI, Herrera-Mundo N, Viano DC, Kuhn DM. Animal models of sports-related head injury: bridging the gap between pre-clinical research and clinical reality. J Neurochem 2014; 129:916-31. [PMID: 24673291 DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2014] [Revised: 02/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/12/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sports-related head impact and injury has become a very highly contentious public health and medico-legal issue. Near-daily news accounts describe the travails of concussed athletes as they struggle with depression, sleep disorders, mood swings, and cognitive problems. Some of these individuals have developed chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive and debilitating neurodegenerative disorder. Animal models have always been an integral part of the study of traumatic brain injury in humans but, historically, they have concentrated on acute, severe brain injuries. This review will describe a small number of new and emerging animal models of sports-related head injury that have the potential to increase our understanding of how multiple mild head impacts, starting in adolescence, can have serious psychiatric, cognitive and histopathological outcomes much later in life. Sports-related head injury (SRHI) has emerged as a significant public health issue as athletes can develop psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders later in life. Animal models have always been an integral part of the study of human TBI but few existing methods are valid for studying SRHI. In this review, we propose criteria for effective animal models of SRHI. Movement of the head upon impact is judged to be of primary importance in leading to concussion and persistent CNS dysfunction.
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- Mariana Angoa-Pérez
- Research & Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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cAMP-PKA phosphorylation of tau confers risk for degeneration in aging association cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:5036-41. [PMID: 24707050 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1322360111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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The pattern of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD) is very distinctive: neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) composed of hyperphosphorylated tau selectively affect pyramidal neurons of the aging association cortex that interconnect extensively through glutamate synapses on dendritic spines. In contrast, primary sensory cortices have few NFTs, even in late-stage disease. Understanding this selective vulnerability, and why advancing age is such a high risk factor for the degenerative process, may help to reveal disease etiology and provide targets for intervention. Our study has revealed age-related increase in cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) phosphorylation of tau at serine 214 (pS214-tau) in monkey dorsolateral prefrontal association cortex (dlPFC), which specifically targets spine synapses and the Ca(2+)-storing spine apparatus. This increase is mirrored by loss of phosphodiesterase 4A from the spine apparatus, consistent with increase in cAMP-Ca(2+) signaling in aging spines. Phosphorylated tau was not detected in primary visual cortex, similar to the pattern observed in AD. We also report electron microscopic evidence of previously unidentified vesicular trafficking of phosphorylated tau in normal association cortex--in axons in young dlPFC vs. in spines in aged dlPFC--consistent with the transneuronal lesion spread reported in genetic rodent models. pS214-Tau was not observed in normal aged mice, suggesting that it arises with the evolutionary expansion of corticocortical connections in primates, crossing the threshold into NFTs and degeneration in humans. Thus, the cAMP-Ca(2+) signaling mechanisms, needed for flexibly modulating network strength in young association cortex, confer vulnerability to degeneration when dysregulated with advancing age.
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Quan SF. Are sleep disturbances a risk for chronic traumatic encephalopathy? Only the shadow knows. J Clin Sleep Med 2014; 10:241-2. [PMID: 24634619 DOI: 10.5664/jcsm.3516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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- Stuart F Quan
- Editor, Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine; Division of Sleep Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, Arizona Respiratory Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ
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Partridge B. Dazed and confused: sports medicine, conflicts of interest, and concussion management. JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY 2014; 11:65-74. [PMID: 24249203 DOI: 10.1007/s11673-013-9491-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2013] [Accepted: 07/15/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Professional sports with high rates of concussion have become increasingly concerned about the long-term effects of multiple head injuries. In this context, return-to-play decisions about concussion generate considerable ethical tensions for sports physicians. Team doctors clearly have an obligation to the welfare of their patient (the injured athlete) but they also have an obligation to their employer (the team), whose primary interest is typically success through winning. At times, a team's interest in winning may not accord with the welfare of an injured player, particularly when it comes to decisions about returning to play after injury. Australia's two most popular professional football codes-rugby league and Australian Rules football-have adopted guidelines that prohibit concussed players from continuing to play on the same day. I suggest that conflicts of interest between doctors, patients, and teams may present a substantial obstacle to the proper adherence of concussion guidelines. Concussion management guidelines implemented by a sport's governing body do not necessarily remove or resolve conflicts of interest in the doctor-patient-team triad. The instigation of a concussion exclusion rule appears to add a fourth party to this triad (the National Rugby League or the Australian Football League). In some instances, when conflicts of interest among stakeholders are ignored or insufficiently managed, they may facilitate attempts at circumventing concussion management guidelines to the detriment of player welfare.
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- Brad Partridge
- UQ Centre for Clinical Research (UQCCR), The University of Queensland, Herston, Qld, Australia, 4029,
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Stetler RA, Leak RK, Gan Y, Li P, Zhang F, Hu X, Jing Z, Chen J, Zigmond MJ, Gao Y. Preconditioning provides neuroprotection in models of CNS disease: paradigms and clinical significance. Prog Neurobiol 2014; 114:58-83. [PMID: 24389580 PMCID: PMC3937258 DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2013.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 151] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2012] [Revised: 11/18/2013] [Accepted: 11/18/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Preconditioning is a phenomenon in which brief episodes of a sublethal insult induce robust protection against subsequent lethal injuries. Preconditioning has been observed in multiple organisms and can occur in the brain as well as other tissues. Extensive animal studies suggest that the brain can be preconditioned to resist acute injuries, such as ischemic stroke, neonatal hypoxia/ischemia, surgical brain injury, trauma, and agents that are used in models of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Effective preconditioning stimuli are numerous and diverse, ranging from transient ischemia, hypoxia, hyperbaric oxygen, hypothermia and hyperthermia, to exposure to neurotoxins and pharmacological agents. The phenomenon of "cross-tolerance," in which a sublethal stress protects against a different type of injury, suggests that different preconditioning stimuli may confer protection against a wide range of injuries. Research conducted over the past few decades indicates that brain preconditioning is complex, involving multiple effectors such as metabolic inhibition, activation of extra- and intracellular defense mechanisms, a shift in the neuronal excitatory/inhibitory balance, and reduction in inflammatory sequelae. An improved understanding of brain preconditioning should help us identify innovative therapeutic strategies that prevent or at least reduce neuronal damage in susceptible patients. In this review, we focus on the experimental evidence of preconditioning in the brain and systematically survey the models used to develop paradigms for neuroprotection, and then discuss the clinical potential of brain preconditioning.
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- R Anne Stetler
- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Division of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Mylan School of Pharmacy, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA; Geriatric Research, Educational and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China; Department of Neurology and Center of Cerebrovascular Disease Research, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Institute of Brain Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai Medical College, Shanghai 200032, China.
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Wilson DA, Selassie AW. Risk of severe and repetitive traumatic brain injury in persons with epilepsy: a population-based case-control study. Epilepsy Behav 2014; 32:42-8. [PMID: 24469016 DOI: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2013.12.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2013] [Revised: 12/08/2013] [Accepted: 12/28/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND While traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to epilepsy, individuals with preexisting epilepsy or seizure disorder (ESD), depending on the type of epilepsy and the degree of seizure control, may have a greater risk of TBI from seizure activity or medication side effects. The joint occurrence of ESD and TBI can complicate recovery as signs and symptoms of TBI may be mistaken for postictal effects. Those with ESD are predicted to experience more deleterious outcomes either because of having a more severe TBI or because of the cumulative effects of repetitive TBI. METHODS We conducted a case-control study of all emergency department visits and hospital discharges for TBI from 1998 through 2011 in a statewide population. The severity of TBI, repetitive TBI, and other demographic and clinical characteristics were compared between persons with TBI with preexisting ESD (cases) and those without (controls). Significant differences in proportions were evaluated with confidence intervals. Logistic regression was used to examine the association of the independent variables with ESD. RESULTS During the study period, 236,164 individuals sustained TBI, 5646 (2.4%) of which had preexisting ESD. After adjustment for demographic and clinical characteristics, cases were more likely to have sustained a severe TBI (OR=1.49; 95% CI=1.38-1.60) and have had repetitive TBI (OR=1.54; 95% CI=1.41-1.69). CONCLUSION The consequences of TBI may be greater in individuals with ESD owing to the potential for a more severe or repetitive TBI. Seizure control is paramount, and aggressive management of comorbid conditions among persons with ESD and increased awareness of the hazard of repetitive TBI is warranted. Furthermore, future studies are needed to examine the long-term outcomes of cases in comparison with controls to determine if the higher risk of severe or repetitive TBI translates into permanent deficits.
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- Dulaney A Wilson
- Medical University of SC, Department of Public Health Sciences, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, MSC 835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
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- Medical University of SC, Department of Public Health Sciences, 135 Cannon Street, Suite 303, MSC 835, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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Ng TS, Lin AP, Koerte IK, Pasternak O, Liao H, Merugumala S, Bouix S, Shenton ME. Neuroimaging in repetitive brain trauma. ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY 2014; 6:10. [PMID: 25031630 PMCID: PMC3978843 DOI: 10.1186/alzrt239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Sports-related concussions are one of the major causes of mild traumatic brain injury. Although most patients recover completely within days to weeks, those who experience repetitive brain trauma (RBT) may be at risk for developing a condition known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). While this condition is most commonly observed in athletes who experience repetitive concussive and/or subconcussive blows to the head, such as boxers, football players, or hockey players, CTE may also affect soldiers on active duty. Currently, the only means by which to diagnose CTE is by the presence of phosphorylated tau aggregations post-mortem. Non-invasive neuroimaging, however, may allow early diagnosis as well as improve our understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of RBT. The purpose of this article is to review advanced neuroimaging methods used to investigate RBT, including diffusion tensor imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, functional magnetic resonance imaging, susceptibility weighted imaging, and positron emission tomography. While there is a considerable literature using these methods in brain injury in general, the focus of this review is on RBT and those subject populations currently known to be susceptible to RBT, namely athletes and soldiers. Further, while direct detection of CTE in vivo has not yet been achieved, all of the methods described in this review provide insight into RBT and will likely lead to a better characterization (diagnosis), in vivo, of CTE than measures of self-report.
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- Thomas Sc Ng
- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, 1975 Zonal Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA ; Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA ; Institute for Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Marchioninistrasse 15, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Psychiatric Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 1249 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA ; Research and Development, VA Boston Healthcare System, 850 Belmont Street, Brockton, MA 02130, USA
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Ling H, Kara E, Revesz T, Lees AJ, Plant GT, Martino D, Houlden H, Hardy J, Holton JL. Concomitant progressive supranuclear palsy and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in a boxer. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2014; 2:24. [PMID: 24559032 PMCID: PMC3996066 DOI: 10.1186/2051-5960-2-24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2014] [Accepted: 02/15/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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We report the case of a 75-year-old ex-professional boxer who developed diplopia and eye movement abnormalities in his 60's followed by memory impairment, low mood and recurrent falls. Examination shortly before death revealed hypomimia, dysarthria, vertical supranuclear gaze palsy and impaired postural reflexes. Pathological examination demonstrated 4-repeat tau neuronal and glial lesions, including tufted astrocytes, consistent with a diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy. In addition, neurofibrillary tangles composed of mixed 3-repeat and 4-repeat tau and astrocytic tangles in a distribution highly suggestive of chronic traumatic encephalopathy were observed together with limbic TDP-43 pathology. Possible mechanisms for the co-occurrence of these two tau pathologies are discussed.
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Mouzon BC, Bachmeier C, Ferro A, Ojo JO, Crynen G, Acker CM, Davies P, Mullan M, Stewart W, Crawford F. Chronic neuropathological and neurobehavioral changes in a repetitive mild traumatic brain injury model. Ann Neurol 2014; 75:241-54. [DOI: 10.1002/ana.24064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 221] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2013] [Revised: 09/11/2013] [Accepted: 10/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Benoit C. Mouzon
- Roskamp Institute; Sarasota FL
- James A. Haley Veterans Administration Medical Center; Tampa FL
- Department of Life Sciences; Open University; Milton Keynes United Kingdom
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- Roskamp Institute; Sarasota FL
- Department of Life Sciences; Open University; Milton Keynes United Kingdom
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- Roskamp Institute; Sarasota FL
- Department of Life Sciences; Open University; Milton Keynes United Kingdom
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- Litwin-Zucker Center for Research in Alzheimer's Disease; Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore/LIJ Health System; Manhasset NY
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- Litwin-Zucker Center for Research in Alzheimer's Disease; Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, North Shore/LIJ Health System; Manhasset NY
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- Roskamp Institute; Sarasota FL
- James A. Haley Veterans Administration Medical Center; Tampa FL
- Department of Life Sciences; Open University; Milton Keynes United Kingdom
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- Department of Neuropathology; Southern General Hospital; Glasgow United Kingdom
- University of Glasgow; Glasgow United Kingdom
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- Roskamp Institute; Sarasota FL
- James A. Haley Veterans Administration Medical Center; Tampa FL
- Department of Life Sciences; Open University; Milton Keynes United Kingdom
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Diffuse axonal injury after traumatic brain injury (TBI) produces neurological impairment by disconnecting brain networks. This structural damage can be mapped using diffusion MRI, and its functional effects can be investigated in large-scale intrinsic connectivity networks (ICNs). Here, we review evidence that TBI substantially disrupts ICN function, and that this disruption predicts cognitive impairment. We focus on two ICNs--the salience network and the default mode network. The activity of these ICNs is normally tightly coupled, which is important for attentional control. Damage to the structural connectivity of these networks produces predictable abnormalities of network function and cognitive control. For example, the brain normally shows a 'small-world architecture' that is optimized for information processing, but TBI shifts network function away from this organization. The effects of TBI on network function are likely to be complex, and we discuss how advanced approaches to modelling brain dynamics can provide insights into the network dysfunction. We highlight how structural network damage caused by axonal injury might interact with neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which are late complications of TBI. Finally, we discuss how network-level diagnostics could inform diagnosis, prognosis and treatment development following TBI.
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Zhang YP, Cai J, Shields LBE, Liu N, Xu XM, Shields CB. Traumatic brain injury using mouse models. Transl Stroke Res 2014; 5:454-71. [PMID: 24493632 DOI: 10.1007/s12975-014-0327-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2013] [Revised: 12/09/2013] [Accepted: 01/05/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The use of mouse models in traumatic brain injury (TBI) has several advantages compared to other animal models including low cost of breeding, easy maintenance, and innovative technology to create genetically modified strains. Studies using knockout and transgenic mice demonstrating functional gain or loss of molecules provide insight into basic mechanisms of TBI. Mouse models provide powerful tools to screen for putative therapeutic targets in TBI. This article reviews currently available mouse models that replicate several clinical features of TBI such as closed head injuries (CHI), penetrating head injuries, and a combination of both. CHI may be caused by direct trauma creating cerebral concussion or contusion. Sudden acceleration-deceleration injuries of the head without direct trauma may also cause intracranial injury by the transmission of shock waves to the brain. Recapitulation of temporary cavities that are induced by high-velocity penetrating objects in the mouse brain are difficult to produce, but slow brain penetration injuries in mice are reviewed. Synergistic damaging effects on the brain following systemic complications are also described. Advantages and disadvantages of CHI mouse models induced by weight drop, fluid percussion, and controlled cortical impact injuries are compared. Differences in the anatomy, biomechanics, and behavioral evaluations between mice and humans are discussed. Although the use of mouse models for TBI research is promising, further development of these techniques is warranted.
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- Yi Ping Zhang
- Norton Neuroscience Institute, Norton Healthcare, 210 East Gray Street, Suite 1102, Louisville, KY, 40202, USA,
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Pasternak O, Koerte IK, Bouix S, Fredman E, Sasaki T, Mayinger M, Helmer KG, Johnson AM, Holmes JD, Forwell LA, Skopelja EN, Shenton ME, Echlin PS. Hockey Concussion Education Project, Part 2. Microstructural white matter alterations in acutely concussed ice hockey players: a longitudinal free-water MRI study. J Neurosurg 2014; 120:873-81. [PMID: 24490785 DOI: 10.3171/2013.12.jns132090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECT Concussion is a common injury in ice hockey and a health problem for the general population. Traumatic axonal injury has been associated with concussions (also referred to as mild traumatic brain injuries), yet the pathological course that leads from injury to recovery or to long-term sequelae is still not known. This study investigated the longitudinal course of concussion by comparing diffusion MRI (dMRI) scans of the brains of ice hockey players before and after a concussion. METHODS The 2011-2012 Hockey Concussion Education Project followed 45 university-level ice hockey players (both male and female) during a single Canadian Interuniversity Sports season. Of these, 38 players had usable dMRI scans obtained in the preseason. During the season, 11 players suffered a concussion, and 7 of these 11 players had usable dMRI scans that were taken within 72 hours of injury. To analyze the data, the authors performed free-water imaging, which reflects an increase in specificity over other dMRI analysis methods by identifying alterations that occur in the extracellular space compared with those that occur in proximity to cellular tissue in the white matter. They used an individualized approach to identify alterations that are spatially heterogeneous, as is expected in concussions. RESULTS Paired comparison of the concussed players before and after injury revealed a statistically significant (p < 0.05) common pattern of reduced free-water volume and reduced axial and radial diffusivities following elimination of free-water. These free-water-corrected measures are less affected by partial volumes containing extracellular water and are therefore more specific to processes that occur within the brain tissue. Fractional anisotropy was significantly increased, but this change was no longer significant following the free-water elimination. CONCLUSIONS Concussion during ice hockey games results in microstructural alterations that are detectable using dMRI. The alterations that the authors found suggest decreased extracellular space and decreased diffusivities in white matter tissue. This finding might be explained by swelling and/or by increased cellularity of glia cells. Even though these findings in and of themselves cannot determine whether the observed microstructural alterations are related to long-term pathology or persistent symptoms, they are important nonetheless because they establish a clearer picture of how the brain responds to concussion.
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- Ofer Pasternak
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Tartaglia MC, Hazrati LN, Davis KD, Green REA, Wennberg R, Mikulis D, Ezerins LJ, Keightley M, Tator C. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other neurodegenerative proteinopathies. Front Hum Neurosci 2014; 8:30. [PMID: 24550810 PMCID: PMC3907709 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2013] [Accepted: 01/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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"Chronic traumatic encephalopathy" (CTE) is described as a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease believed to result from multiple concussions. Traditionally, concussions were considered benign events and although most people recover fully, about 10% develop a post-concussive syndrome with persisting neurological, cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. CTE was once thought to be unique to boxers, but it has now been observed in many different athletes having suffered multiple concussions as well as in military personal after repeated blast injuries. Much remains unknown about the development of CTE but its pathological substrate is usually tau, similar to that seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The aim of this "perspective" is to compare and contrast clinical and pathological CTE with the other neurodegenerative proteinopathies and highlight that there is an urgent need for understanding the relationship between concussion and the development of CTE as it may provide a window into the development of a proteinopathy and thus new avenues for treatment.
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- Maria Carmela Tartaglia
- Division of Neurology, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Division of Neurosurgery, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Division of Brain, Imaging and Behaviour - Systems Neuroscience, Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Surgery, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Division of Neurology, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Division of Neuroradiology, Joint Department of Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, The University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Executive Director, Canadian Football League Alumni Association Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Toronto, ON, Canada ; Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Graduate Department of Rehabilitation Science, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Canadian Sports Concussion Project Toronto, ON, Canada ; Division of Neurosurgery, Krembil Neuroscience Centre, Toronto Western Hospital, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada
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Sasaki T, Pasternak O, Mayinger M, Muehlmann M, Savadjiev P, Bouix S, Kubicki M, Fredman E, Dahlben B, Helmer KG, Johnson AM, Holmes JD, Forwell LA, Skopelja EN, Shenton ME, Echlin PS, Koerte IK. Hockey Concussion Education Project, Part 3. White matter microstructure in ice hockey players with a history of concussion: a diffusion tensor imaging study. J Neurosurg 2014; 120:882-90. [PMID: 24471841 DOI: 10.3171/2013.12.jns132092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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OBJECT The aim of this study was to examine the brain's white matter microstructure by using MR diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) in ice hockey players with a history of clinically symptomatic concussion compared with players without a history of concussion. METHODS Sixteen players with a history of concussion (concussed group; mean age 21.7 ± 1.5 years; 6 female) and 18 players without a history of concussion (nonconcussed group; mean age 21.3 ± 1.8 years, 10 female) underwent 3-T DTI at the end of the 2011-2012 Canadian Interuniversity Sports ice hockey season. Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) was used to test for group differences in fractional anisotropy (FA), axial diffusivity (AD), radial diffusivity (RD), and the measure "trace," or mean diffusivity. Cognitive evaluation was performed using the Immediate Postconcussion Assessment and Cognitive Test (ImPACT) and the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool-2 (SCAT2). RESULTS TBSS revealed a significant increase in FA and AD, and a significant decrease in RD and trace in several brain regions in the concussed group, compared with the nonconcussed group (p < 0.05). The regions with increased FA and decreased RD and trace included the right posterior limb of the internal capsule, the right corona radiata, and the right temporal lobe. Increased AD was observed in a small area in the left corona radiata. The DTI measures correlated with neither the ImPACT nor the SCAT2 scores. CONCLUSIONS The results of the current study indicate that a history of concussion may result in alterations of the brain's white matter microstructure in ice hockey players. Increased FA based on decreased RD may reflect neuroinflammatory or neuroplastic processes of the brain responding to brain trauma. Future studies are needed that include a longitudinal analysis of the brain's structure and function following a concussion to elucidate further the complex time course of DTI changes and their clinical meaning.
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- Takeshi Sasaki
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Heldt SA, Elberger AJ, Deng Y, Guley NH, Del Mar N, Rogers J, Choi GW, Ferrell J, Rex TS, Honig MG, Reiner A. A novel closed-head model of mild traumatic brain injury caused by primary overpressure blast to the cranium produces sustained emotional deficits in mice. Front Neurol 2014; 5:2. [PMID: 24478749 PMCID: PMC3898331 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2014.00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2013] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Emotional disorders are a common outcome from mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans, but their pathophysiological basis is poorly understood. We have developed a mouse model of closed-head blast injury using an air pressure wave delivered to a small area on one side of the cranium, to create mild TBI. We found that 20-psi blasts in 3-month-old C57BL/6 male mice yielded no obvious behavioral or histological evidence of brain injury, while 25-40 psi blasts produced transient anxiety in an open field arena but little histological evidence of brain damage. By contrast, 50-60 psi blasts resulted in anxiety-like behavior in an open field arena that became more evident with time after blast. In additional behavioral tests conducted 2-8 weeks after blast, 50-60 psi mice also demonstrated increased acoustic startle, perseverance of learned fear, and enhanced contextual fear, as well as depression-like behavior and diminished prepulse inhibition. We found no evident cerebral pathology, but did observe scattered axonal degeneration in brain sections from 50 to 60 psi mice 3-8 weeks after blast. Thus, the TBI caused by single 50-60 psi blasts in mice exhibits the minimal neuronal loss coupled to "diffuse" axonal injury characteristic of human mild TBI. A reduction in the abundance of a subpopulation of excitatory projection neurons in basolateral amygdala enriched in Thy1 was, however, observed. The reported link of this neuronal population to fear suppression suggests their damage by mild TBI may contribute to the heightened anxiety and fearfulness observed after blast in our mice. Our overpressure air blast model of concussion in mice will enable further studies of the mechanisms underlying the diverse emotional deficits seen after mild TBI.
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- Scott A. Heldt
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a spectrum of neuropathological changes following repetitive brain trauma in athletes and military personnel. ALZHEIMERS RESEARCH & THERAPY 2014; 6:4. [PMID: 24423082 PMCID: PMC3979082 DOI: 10.1186/alzrt234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that occurs in association with repetitive traumatic brain injury experienced in sport and military service. In most instances, the clinical symptoms of the disease begin after a long period of latency ranging from several years to several decades. The initial symptoms are typically insidious, consisting of irritability, impulsivity, aggression, depression, short-term memory loss and heightened suicidality. The symptoms progress slowly over decades to include cognitive deficits and dementia. The pathology of CTE is characterized by the accumulation of phosphorylated tau protein in neurons and astrocytes in a pattern that is unique from other tauopathies, including Alzheimer’s disease. The hyperphosphorylated tau abnormalities begin focally, as perivascular neurofibrillary tangles and neurites at the depths of the cerebral sulci, and then spread to involve superficial layers of adjacent cortex before becoming a widespread degeneration affecting medial temporal lobe structures, diencephalon and brainstem. Most instances of CTE (>85% of cases) show abnormal accumulations of phosphorylated 43 kDa TAR DNA binding protein that are partially colocalized with phosphorylated tau protein. As CTE is characterized pathologically by frontal and temporal lobe atrophy, by abnormal deposits of phosphorylated tau and by 43 kDa TAR DNA binding protein and is associated clinically with behavioral and personality changes, as well as cognitive impairments, CTE is increasingly categorized as an acquired frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Currently, some of the greatest challenges are that CTE cannot be diagnosed during life and the incidence and prevalence of the disorder remain uncertain. Furthermore, the contribution of age, gender, genetics, stress, alcohol and substance abuse to the development of CTE remains to be determined.
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Sawmiller D, Li S, Shahaduzzaman M, Smith AJ, Obregon D, Giunta B, Borlongan CV, Sanberg PR, Tan J. Luteolin reduces Alzheimer's disease pathologies induced by traumatic brain injury. Int J Mol Sci 2014; 15:895-904. [PMID: 24413756 PMCID: PMC3907845 DOI: 10.3390/ijms15010895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Revised: 01/03/2014] [Accepted: 01/06/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in response to an acute insult to the head and is recognized as a major risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Indeed, recent studies have suggested a pathological overlap between TBI and AD, with both conditions exhibiting amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposits, tauopathy, and neuroinflammation. Additional studies involving animal models of AD indicate that some AD-related genotypic determinants may be critical factors enhancing temporal and phenotypic symptoms of TBI. Thus in the present study, we examined sub-acute effects of moderate TBI delivered by a gas-driven shock tube device in Aβ depositing Tg2576 mice. Three days later, significant increases in b-amyloid deposition, glycogen synthase-3 (GSK-3) activation, phospho-tau, and pro-inflammatory cytokines were observed. Importantly, peripheral treatment with the naturally occurring flavonoid, luteolin, significantly abolished these accelerated pathologies. This study lays the groundwork for a safe and natural compound that could prevent or treat TBI with minimal or no deleterious side effects in combat personnel and others at risk or who have experienced TBI.
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- Darrell Sawmiller
- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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- James A. Haley Veteran's Administration Hospital, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
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Assessment, Management and Knowledge of Sport-Related Concussion: Systematic Review. Sports Med 2014; 44:449-71. [DOI: 10.1007/s40279-013-0134-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Slobounov S. Metabolic integrity of primary motor cortex may be compromised in clinically asymptomatic concussed athletes. Clin Neurophysiol 2014; 125:1291-2. [PMID: 24461796 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2013.12.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Revised: 12/10/2013] [Accepted: 12/12/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Seymon Slobounov
- The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Rabinowitz AR, Li X, Levin HS. Sport and Nonsport Etiologies of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Similarities and Differences. Annu Rev Psychol 2014; 65:301-31. [DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-010213-115103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Amanda R. Rabinowitz
- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104;
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- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030
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- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Alliance, Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas 77030
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