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Reconstruction of the Ascending Reticular Activating System with Diffusion Tensor Tractography in Patients with a Disorder of Consciousness after Traumatic Brain Injury.
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- Assessment of the Sex Hormone Profile and Its Predictive Role in Consciousness Recovery Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Volumetric MRI Findings in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and Neuropsychological Outcome.Neuropsychology review · 2023Review
- Structural and functional connectivity of the ascending arousal network for prediction of outcome in patients with acute disorders of consciousness.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Differentiating Responders and Non-responders to rTMS Treatment for Disorder of Consciousness Using EEG After-Effects.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Article
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- Sex Differences in Sex Hormone Profiles and Prediction of Consciousness Recovery After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Article
- Demystifying White Matter Injury in the Unconscious Patients with Diffusion Tensor Imaging.Asian journal of neurosurgeryArticle
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Abstract
This work describes the reconstruction of the ascending reticular activating system (ARAS) with diffusion tensor tractography in three patients with altered consciousness after traumatic brain injury. A diffusion tensor tractography was performed in three patients with impaired consciousness after a severe traumatic brain injury. A 1.5 T scanner was used to obtain the tensor sequences; axial tensors were acquired. Post-processing was performed, and the mean fractional anisotropy (FA) values were recorded. The FA maps were used to do a manual tracing of the following regions of interest (ROIs): the ventromedial midbrain, the anterior thalamus, and the hypothalamus. Case 1 presented destruction of the right dorsal and ventral tegmental tracts as well as destruction of the right middle forebrain bundle, case 2 had destruction of the right dorsal tegmental tract, and case 3 had destruction of the bilateral ventral and dorsal tegmental tracts, as well as destruction of the right middle forebrain bundle. The affected fibers of the ascending reticular activating system with diffuse axonal injury and the FA values abnormalities in the ascending reticular activating system in three patients with a disorder of consciousness (DOC) after traumatic brain injury are described.
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