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Assessing Changes in Synaptic Plasticity Using an Awake Closed-Head Injury Model of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury
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Attentional and biomechanical deficits interact after mild traumatic brain injury
Paul van Donkelaar1, Louis Osternig, Li-Shan Chou
1Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1240, USA. paulvd@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews
|May 5, 2006
Abstract:
Even a mild traumatic brain injury leads to deficits in the ability to maintain gait stability that is exacerbated when a secondary cognitive task is performed at the same time. This implies that executive function is disrupted after concussion-a supposition that is confirmed when tested directly.