amnesia/atrophy

Introduction Minor head injury is a serious public health problem. It is defined as a history of loss of consciousness, amnesia, or disorientation and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13-15 [1]. Patients with minor head injury are frequently encountered in the emergency department and the

Hippocampal sclerosis (HS) refers to neuronal cell loss and astrocytosis in subiculum and cornu ammonis subfields of the hippocampal formation unrelated to Alzheimer's disease pathology. In contrast to HS that affects younger adults with epilepsy, older individuals with HS have significant

We wish to use MRI technology to study brain structure (Part 1) and function (Part 2) in several neurological disorders and in normal controls. In Part 1 of this protocol, we describe our interest in using detailed MRI brain structure analysis to identify predicted specific neural structure atrophy