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ArticleJournal of neurotrauma2010

Metabolic levels in the corpus callosum and their structural and behavioral correlates after moderate to severe pediatric TBI.

Talin Babikian, Sarah Deboard Marion, Sarah Copeland, Jeffry R Alger, Joseph O'Neill, Fabienne Cazalis, Richard Mink, Christopher C Giza, Jennifer A Vu, Suzanne M Hilleary and 3 more

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Article in Journal of neurotrauma, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. Callosal Function in Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury Linked to Disrupted White Matter Integrity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Talin BabikianSemel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California-Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Room C8-746, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. tbabikian@mednet.ucla.edu
Sarah Deboard Marion
Sarah Copeland
Jeffry R Alger
Joseph O'Neill
Fabienne Cazalis
Richard Mink
Christopher C Giza
Jennifer A Vu
Suzanne M Hilleary
Claudia L Kernan
Nina Newman
Robert F Asarnow
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Using glutamatergic pharmacotherapy to optimize TBI recoveryR01NS027544 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI HOVDA, DAVID A · 1990 to 2017
$3.8M
Restoration of plasticity after pediatric traumatic brain injuryK02NS057420 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GIZA, CHRISTOPHER C · 2007 to 2009
$533k
Neuroimaging and Recovery after Pediatric Brain InjuryF32NS053169 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BABIKIAN, TALIN · 2006 to 2007
$90k
NINDS NIH HHS F32NS053169NINDS NIH HHS K02 NS057420NINDS NIH HHS NS057420NINDS NIH HHS NS27544
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diffuse axonal injury (DAI) secondary to traumatic brain injury (TBI) contributes to long-term functional morbidity. The corpus callosum (CC) is particularly vulnerable to this type of injury. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was used to characterize the metabolic status of two CC regions of interest (ROIs) (anterior and posterior), and their structural (diffusion tensor imaging; DTI) and neurobehavioral (neurocognitive functioning, bimanual coordination, and interhemispheric transfer time [IHTT]) correlates. Two groups of moderate/severe TBI patients (ages 12-18 years) were studied: post-acute (5 months post-injury; n = 10), and chronic (14.7 months post-injury; n = 8), in addition to 10 age-matched healthy controls. Creatine (energy metabolism) did not differ between groups across both ROIs and time points. In the TBI group, choline (membrane degeneration/inflammation) was elevated for both ROIs at the post-acute but not chronic period. N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) (neuronal/axonal integrity) was reduced initially for both ROIs, with partial normalization at the chronic time point. Posterior, not anterior, NAA was positively correlated with DTI fractional anisotropy (FA) (r = 0.88), and most domains of neurocognition (r range 0.22-0.65), and negatively correlated with IHTT (r = -0.89). Inverse corerlations were noted between creatine and posterior FA (r = -0.76), neurocognition (r range -0.22 to -0.71), and IHTT (r = 0.76). Multimodal studies at distinct time points in specific brain structures are necessary to delineate the course of the degenerative and reparative processes following TBI, which allows for preliminary hypotheses about the nature and course of the neural mechanisms of subsequent functional morbidity. This will help guide the future development of targeted therapeutic agents.

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AdolescentAge FactorsAgingAnisotropyAspartic AcidAxonsBiomarkersBrain InjuriesChildCholineCognition DisordersCorpus CallosumDiffuse Axonal InjuryDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleHumansAspartic AcidBiomarkersCholineN-acetylaspartate

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PMID19925210
PMCPMC2867590
OpenAlexW1993570594

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