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Abstract #3217

Structural Connectivity of Military-Related Traumatic Brain Injury and Its Relations with Neurocognition

Ping-Hong Yeh1, Binquan Wang1, Terrence R. Oakes2, John Graner2, Hai Pan1, Wei Liu1, Louis French3, Fletcher Munter4, Gerard Riedy2, 5

1Henry Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Rockville, MD, United States; 2National Intrepid Center of Excellence, Bethesda, MD, United States; 3Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States; 4National Capital Neuroimaging Consortium, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., United States; 5Radiology, Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM), Bethesda, MD, United States

Detecting white matter changes of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and understanding their effects on neuropsychological consequence is important in treating brain trauma. We evaluated the structural connectivity in traumatic axonal injury using diffusion tensor tractography, and examined the association between the measures and neuropsychological function in military TBI patients.

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