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ArticleJournal of neurotrauma2018

High-Fidelity Measures of Whole-Brain Functional Connectivity and White Matter Integrity Mediate Relationships between Traumatic Brain Injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms.

Evan M Gordon, Randall S Scheibel, Laura Zambrano-Vazquez, Meilin Jia-Richards, Geoffrey J May, Eric C Meyer, Steven M Nelson

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Article in Journal of neurotrauma, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07024875 (Precision Neuroimaging of Parkinson's Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 21 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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21citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT07024875 recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Precision Neuroimaging of Parkinson's Disease

Typeobservational_patient_registrySponsorWashington University School of MedicineRan2025 to 2031Enrolled120ConditionsParkinsons Disease (PD)
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Evan M Gordon1 VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans , Waco, Texas.
Randall S Scheibel4 Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center , Houston, Texas.
Laura Zambrano-Vazquez1 VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans , Waco, Texas.
Meilin Jia-Richards3 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Baylor University , Waco, Texas.
Geoffrey J May1 VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans , Waco, Texas.
Eric C Meyer1 VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans , Waco, Texas.
Steven M Nelson1 VISN 17 Center of Excellence for Research on Returning War Veterans , Waco, Texas.
Baylor University · USCenter for Occupational Research and Development · USBaylor College of Medicine · USThe University of Texas at Dallas · USVA Heart of Texas Health Care Network · US

Funding

A longitudinal study of chronic TBI in OEF/OIF/OND Veterans and service membersI01RX001062 · VA · MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI SCHEIBEL, RANDALL S., WILDE, ELISABETH A · 2015 to 2018
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An fMRI Study of Deployment-Related TBI in Veterans and Service MembersI01RX001320 · VA · MICHAEL E DEBAKEY VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI LEVIN, HARVEY, SCHEIBEL, RANDALL S. · 2015 to 2017
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RRD VA I01 RX000304RRD VA I01 RX001062RRD VA I01 RX001320
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) disrupts brain communication and increases risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, mechanisms by which TBI-related disruption of brain communication confers PTSD risk have not been successfully elucidated in humans. This may be in part because functional MRI (fMRI), the most common technique for measuring functional brain communication, is unreliable for characterizing individual patients. However, this unreliability can be overcome with sufficient within-individual data. Here, we examined whether relationships could be observed among TBI, structural and functional brain connectivity, and PTSD severity by collecting ∼3.5 hours of resting-state fMRI and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data in each of 26 United States military veterans. We observed that a TBI history was associated with decreased whole-brain resting-state functional connectivity (RSFC), while the number of lifetime TBIs was associated with reduced whole-brain fractional anisotropy (FA). Both RSFC and FA explained independent variance in PTSD severity, with RSFC mediating the TBI-PTSD relationship. Finally, we showed that large amounts of per-individual data produced highly reliable RSFC measures, and that relationships among TBI, RSFC/FA, and PTSD could not be observed with typical data quantities. These results demonstrate links among TBI, brain connectivity, and PTSD severity, and illustrate the need for precise characterization of individual patients using high-data fMRI scanning.

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AdultBrain Injuries, TraumaticDiffusion Tensor ImagingFemaleHumansImage Interpretation, Computer-AssistedMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleNeuroimagingStress Disorders, Post-TraumaticVeteransWhite MatterFChigh-data MRIPTSDTBIwhite matter integrity

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PMID29179667
PMCPMC8117405
OpenAlexW2769408852

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