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Cerebrocerebellar Hypometabolism Associated With Repetitive Blast Exposure Mild Traumatic Brain Injury In 12 Iraq War Veterans With Persistent Post-Concussive Symptoms, Elaine R. Peskind, Eric C. Petrie, Donna J. Cross, Kathleen Pagulayan, Kathleen Mccraw, David Hoff, Kim Hart, Chang-En Yu, Murray A. Raskind, David G. Cook, Satoshi Minoshima
Cerebrocerebellar Hypometabolism Associated With Repetitive Blast Exposure Mild Traumatic Brain Injury In 12 Iraq War Veterans With Persistent Post-Concussive Symptoms, Elaine R. Peskind, Eric C. Petrie, Donna J. Cross, Kathleen Pagulayan, Kathleen Mccraw, David Hoff, Kim Hart, Chang-En Yu, Murray A. Raskind, David G. Cook, Satoshi Minoshima
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Disagreement exists regarding the extent to which persistent post-concussive symptoms (PCS) reported by Iraq combat Veterans with repeated episodes of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) from explosive blasts represent structural or functional brain damage or an epiphenomenon of comorbid depression or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Objective assessment of brain function in this population may clarify the issue. To this end, twelve Iraq war Veterans (32.0±8.5 [mean±standard deviation (SD)] years of age) reporting one or more blast exposures meeting American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine criteria for mTBI and persistent PCS and 12 cognitively normal community volunteers (53.0±4.6 years of age) without …
Cannabinoid Receptor Expression And Phosphorylation Are Differentially Regulated Between Male And Female Cerebellum And Brain Stem After Repeated Stress: Implication For Ptsd And Drug Abuse, Guoqiang Xing, Janis Carlton, Lei Zhang, Xiaolong Jiang, Carol Fullerton, He Li, Robert Ursano
Cannabinoid Receptor Expression And Phosphorylation Are Differentially Regulated Between Male And Female Cerebellum And Brain Stem After Repeated Stress: Implication For Ptsd And Drug Abuse, Guoqiang Xing, Janis Carlton, Lei Zhang, Xiaolong Jiang, Carol Fullerton, He Li, Robert Ursano
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Recent study demonstrated a close relationship between cerebellum atrophy and symptom severity of pediatric maltreatment-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It has also been known that females are more vulnerable than males in developing anxiety disorders after exposure to traumatic stress. The mechanisms are unknown. Because cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) are neuroprotective and highly expressed in the cerebellum, we investigated cerebellar CB expression in stressed rats. Young male and female Sprague-Dawley rats were given 40 unpredictable electric tail-shocks for 2 h daily on 3 consecutive days. CB1 and CB2 mRNA and protein levels in rat …