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Harris S, Chinnery HR, Semple BD, Mychasiuk R. Shaking Up Our Approach: The Need for Characterization and Optimization of Pre-clinical Models of Infant Abusive Head Trauma. J Neurotrauma 2024. [PMID: 38497766 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2023.0598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a large societal and individual burden. In the first year of life, the vast majority of these injuries are the result of inflicted abusive events by a trusted caregiver. Abusive head trauma (AHT) in infants, formerly known as shaken baby syndrome, is the leading cause of inflicted mortality and morbidity in this population. In this review we address clinical diagnosis, symptoms, prognosis, and neuropathology of AHT, emphasizing the burden of repetitive AHT. Next, we consider existing animal models of AHT, and we evaluate key features of an ideal model, highlighting important developmental milestones in children most vulnerable to AHT. We draw on insights from other injury models, such as repetitive, mild TBIs (RmTBIs), post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE), hypoxic-ischemic injuries, and maternal neglect, to speculate on key knowledge gaps and underline important new opportunities in pre-clinical AHT research. Finally, potential treatment options to facilitate healthy development in children following an AHT are considered. Together, this review aims to drive the field toward optimized, well-characterized animal models of AHT, which will allow for greater insight into the underlying neuropathological and neurobehavioral consequences of AHT.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sydney Harris
- Department of Neuroscience, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Optometry and Vision Science, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Neurology, Alfred Health, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Medicine (Royal Melbourne Hospital), University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Neuroscience, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Department of Neurology, Alfred Health, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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Li J, Shu Y, Chen L, Wang B, Chen L, Zhan J, Kuang H, Xia G, Zhou F, Gong H, Zeng X. Disrupted topological organization of functional brain networks in traumatic axonal injury. Brain Imaging Behav 2024; 18:279-291. [PMID: 38044412 PMCID: PMC11156726 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-023-00832-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 11/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023]
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Traumatic axonal injury (TAI) may result in the disruption of brain functional networks and is strongly associated with cognitive impairment. However, the neural mechanisms affecting the neurocognitive function after TAI remain to be elucidated. We collected the resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data from 28 patients with TAI and 28 matched healthy controls. An automated anatomical labeling atlas was used to construct a functional brain connectome. We utilized a graph theoretical approach to investigate the alterations in global and regional network topologies, and network-based statistics analysis was utilized to localize the connected networks more precisely. The current study revealed that patients with TAI and healthy controls both showed a typical small-world topology of the functional brain networks. However, patients with TAI exhibited a significantly lower local efficiency compared to healthy controls, whereas no significant difference emerged in other small-world properties (Cp, Lp, γ, λ, and σ) and global efficiency. Moreover, patients with TAI exhibited aberrant nodal centralities in some regions, including the frontal lobes, parietal lobes, caudate nucleus, and cerebellum bilaterally, and right olfactory cortex. The network-based statistics results showed alterations in the long-distance functional connections in the subnetwork in patients with TAI, involving these brain regions with significantly altered nodal centralities. These alterations suggest that brain networks of individuals with TAI present aberrant topological attributes that are associated with cognitive impairment, which could be potential biomarkers for predicting cognitive dysfunction and help understanding the neuropathological mechanisms in patients with TAI.
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- Jian Li
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Medical Imaging Center, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwai Zheng Street, Donghu District, Nanchang City, 330006, Jiangxi, China.
- Neuroimaging Lab, Jiangxi Province Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, China.
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Zhou F, Wu L, Qian L, Kuang H, Zhan J, Li J, Cheung GL, Ding A, Gong H. The Relationship Between Cortical Morphological and Functional Topological Properties and Clinical Manifestations in Patients with Posttraumatic Diffuse Axonal Injury: An Individual Brain Network Study. Brain Topogr 2023; 36:936-945. [PMID: 37615797 DOI: 10.1007/s10548-023-00964-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2023] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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To evaluate the altered network topological properties and their clinical relevance in patients with posttraumatic diffuse axonal injury (DAI). Forty-seven participants were recruited in this study, underwent 3D T1-weighted and resting-state functional MRI, and had single-subject morphological brain networks (MBNs) constructed by Kullback-Leibler divergence and functional brain networks (FBNs) constructed by Pearson correlation measurement interregional similarity. The global and regional properties were analyzed and compared using graph theory and network-based statistics (NBS), and the relationship with clinical manifestations was assessed. Compared with those of the healthy subjects, MBNs of patients with DAI showed a higher path length ([Formula: see text]: P = 0.021, [Formula: see text]: P = 0.011), lower clustering ([Formula: see text]: P = 0.002) and less small-worldness ([Formula: see text]: P = 0.002), but there was no significant difference in the global properties of FBNs (P: 0.161-0.216). For nodal properties of MBNs and FBNs, several regions showed significant differences between patients with DAI and healthy controls (HCs) (P < 0.05, FDR corrected). NBS analysis revealed that MBNs have more altered morphological connections in the frontal parietal control network and interhemispheric connections (P < 0.05). DAI-related global or nodal properties of MBNs were correlated with physical disability or dyscognition (P < 0.05/7, with Bonferroni correction), and the alteration of functional topology properties mediates this relationship. Our results suggested that disrupted morphological topology properties, which are mediated by FBNs and correlated with clinical manifestations of DAI, play a critical role in the short-term and medium-term phases after trauma.
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- Fuqing Zhou
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, No.60 Yannan Yuan, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China
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- Spin Imaging Technology Co., Ltd, No.6 Fengxin Road, Nanjing, 210012, China
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- Department of Radiology, The First People's Hospital of Fuzhou and The Fifth Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Fuzhou, 344000, China.
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- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, 17 Yongwaizheng Street, Nanchang, 330006, Jiangxi, China.
- Neuroimaging Laboratory, Jiangxi Medical Imaging Research Institute, Nanchang, 330006, China.
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Chen Z, Wang P, Cheng H, Wang N, Wu M, Wang Z, Wang Z, Dong W, Guan D, Wang L, Zhao R. Adolescent traumatic brain injury leads to incremental neural impairment in middle-aged mice: role of persistent oxidative stress and neuroinflammation. Front Neurosci 2023; 17:1292014. [PMID: 37965213 PMCID: PMC10642192 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2023.1292014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 11/16/2023] Open
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Background Traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the risk of mental disorders and neurodegenerative diseases in the chronic phase. However, there is limited neuropathological or molecular data on the long-term neural dysfunction and its potential mechanism following adolescent TBI. Methods A total of 160 male mice aged 8 weeks were used to mimic moderate TBI by controlled cortical impact. At 1, 3, 6 and 12 months post-injury (mpi), different neurological functions were evaluated by elevated plus maze, forced swimming test, sucrose preference test and Morris water maze. The levels of oxidative stress, antioxidant response, reactive astrocytes and microglia, and expression of inflammatory cytokines were subsequently assessed in the ipsilateral hippocampus, followed by neuronal apoptosis detection. Additionally, the morphological complexity of hippocampal astrocytes was evaluated by Sholl analysis. Results The adolescent mice exhibited persistent and incremental deficits in memory and anxiety-like behavior after TBI, which were sharply exacerbated at 12 mpi. Depression-like behaviors were observed in TBI mice at 6 mpi and 12 mpi. Compared with the age-matched control mice, apoptotic neurons were observed in the ipsilateral hippocampus during the chronic phase of TBI, which were accompanied by enhanced oxidative stress, and expression of inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β and TNF-α). Moreover, the reactive astrogliosis and microgliosis in the ipsilateral hippocampus were observed in the late phase of TBI, especially at 12 mpi. Conclusion Adolescent TBI leads to incremental cognitive dysfunction, and depression- and anxiety-like behaviors in middle-aged mice. The chronic persistent neuroinflammation and oxidative stress account for the neuronal loss and neural dysfunction in the ipsilateral hippocampus. Our results provide evidence for the pathogenesis of chronic neural damage following TBI and shed new light on the treatment of TBI-induced late-phase neurological dysfunction.
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- Ziyuan Chen
- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
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- Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
- Key Laboratory of Environmental Stress and Chronic Disease Control and Prevention, Ministry of Education, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
- Liaoning Province Key Laboratory of Forensic Bio-Evidence Sciences, Shenyang, China
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Ertl-Wagner BB, Pai V. Broadening the Scope of Normal Control Images in Pediatric Neuroimaging-and Possibly Beyond. Radiology 2023; 309:e232598. [PMID: 37906004 DOI: 10.1148/radiol.232598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2023]
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- Birgit Betina Ertl-Wagner
- From the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology (B.B.E.W., V.P.) and Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, Research Institute (B.B.E.W.), The Hospital for Sick Children, 170 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1E8; and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (B.B.E.W., V.P.)
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- From the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology (B.B.E.W., V.P.) and Neurosciences and Mental Health Program, Research Institute (B.B.E.W.), The Hospital for Sick Children, 170 Elizabeth St, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1E8; and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (B.B.E.W., V.P.)
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Bigler ED. Gray Matter Matters in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Neurology 2023; 100:e555-e557. [PMID: 36717233 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000206835] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/06/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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- Erin D Bigler
- From the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT and Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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Imms P, Clemente A, Deutscher E, Radwan AM, Akhlaghi H, Beech P, Wilson PH, Irimia A, Poudel G, Domínguez Duque JF, Caeyenberghs K. Exploring personalized structural connectomics for moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. Netw Neurosci 2023; 7:160-183. [PMID: 37334004 PMCID: PMC10270710 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 09/06/2022] [Indexed: 10/03/2023] Open
Abstract
Graph theoretical analysis of the structural connectome has been employed successfully to characterize brain network alterations in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, heterogeneity in neuropathology is a well-known issue in the TBI population, such that group comparisons of patients against controls are confounded by within-group variability. Recently, novel single-subject profiling approaches have been developed to capture inter-patient heterogeneity. We present a personalized connectomics approach that examines structural brain alterations in five chronic patients with moderate to severe TBI who underwent anatomical and diffusion magnetic resonance imaging. We generated individualized profiles of lesion characteristics and network measures (including personalized graph metric GraphMe plots, and nodal and edge-based brain network alterations) and compared them against healthy reference cases (N = 12) to assess brain damage qualitatively and quantitatively at the individual level. Our findings revealed alterations of brain networks with high variability between patients. With validation and comparison to stratified, normative healthy control comparison cohorts, this approach could be used by clinicians to formulate a neuroscience-guided integrative rehabilitation program for TBI patients, and for designing personalized rehabilitation protocols based on their unique lesion load and connectome.
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- Phoebe Imms
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre, School of Behavioural, Health, and Human Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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- KU Leuven, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Translational MRI, Leuven, Belgium
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- Emergency Department, St. Vincent’s Hospital (Melbourne), Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Healthy Brain and Mind Research Centre, School of Behavioural, Health, and Human Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
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- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Corwin D. Denney Research Center, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Quantitative and Computational Biology, Dana and David Dornsife College of Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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- Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
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