Citation

Wilde EA, Newsome M, Ott SD, Hunter JV, Dash PK, Redell JB, Spruiell M, Diaz M, Chu ZD, Goodrich-Hunsaker NJ, Petrie JA, Li R, Levin H. J. Neurotrauma 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Baylor College of Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory , One Baylor Plaza MS637 , houston, Texas, United States , 77030 ; hlevin@bcm.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Mary Ann Liebert Publishers)

DOI

10.1089/neu.2019.6377

PMID

31119974

Abstract

Structural and functional connectivity after sports-related concussion (SRC) may remain altered in adolescent athletes despite symptom resolution. However, little is known about how alterations in structural and functional connectivity co-present in female athletes whose symptom recovery tends to be prolonged. Despite resolution of symptoms, one month following her second SRC, an 18-year-old female athlete had decreased structural connectivity in the corpus callosum and cingulum, with altered FC near those regions, compared to other SRC and orthopedically injured athletes.

FINDINGS show persistent effects of SRC on advanced brain imaging and the possibility of greater vulnerability of white matter tracts in females.

Language: en

Keywords

Diffusion Tensor Imaging; GENDER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY