Citation

Weiner MW, Crane PK, Montine TJ, Bennett DA, Veitch DP. Neurology 2017; 89(18): 1923-1925.

Affiliation

From the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (M.W.W., D.P.V.), Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases, San Francisco, CA; Department of Medicine (P.K.C.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Pathology (T.J.M.), Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA; and Department of Neurological Sciences (D.A.B.), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1212/WNL.0000000000004608

PMID

28978654

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) commonly occurs in civilian and military populations. Some epidemiologic studies previously have associated TBI with an increased risk of Alzheimer disease (AD). Recent clinicopathologic and biomarker studies have failed to confirm the relationship of TBI to the development of AD dementia or pathologic changes, and suggest that other neurodegenerative processes might be linked to TBI. Additional studies are required to determine the long-term consequences of TBI.

Copyright © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American Academy of Neurology.

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