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ArticleNeurotrauma reports2024

Combined Use of Guanfacine and

Siddharth Khasnavis, Timothy Belliveau, Amy Arnsten, Arman Fesharaki-Zadeh

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Article in Neurotrauma reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Siddharth KhasnavisDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Timothy BelliveauDepartment of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Amy ArnstenDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Arman Fesharaki-ZadehDepartment of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Yale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant contributor to disability across the world. TBIs vary in severity, and most cases are designated mild TBI (mTBI), involving only brief loss of consciousness and no intracranial findings on imaging. Despite this categorization, many persons continue to report persistent cognitive changes in the months to years after injury, with particular impairment in the cognitive and executive functions of the pre-frontal cortex. For these persons, there are no currently approved medications, and treatment is limited to symptom management and cognitive or behavioral therapy. The current case studies explored the use of the alpha-2A adrenoreceptor agonist, guanfacine, combined with the antioxidant,

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cognitive symptomsguanfacineN-acetylcysteinetraumatic brain injury

Identifiers

PMID38524728
PMCPMC10960163
OpenAlexW4392799843

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