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Thalamic involvement in multiple sclerosis

MS patients show increased water diffusion in thalamus, suggesting that gray
matter injury may play a role in this pathophysiology.
More info:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=14569822
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Clinical and Neuropsychological Aspects of Closed Head Injury
by John T. E. Richardson

Reviews the epidemiology, causes, and structural neuropathology of closed head
injury and its impact on cognitive function.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0863777511/top100
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Thalamic involvement in multiple sclerosis
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14569822

Using patient-specific hemodynamic response functions in combined EEG-fMRI
studies in epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14568485

Neuroimaging tools to rate regional atrophy, subcortical cerebrovascular
disease, and regional cerebral blood flow and metabolism
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14570828

Functional neuroanatomical correlates of traumatic stress revisited 7 years
later, this time with data.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14566211

Caffeine, fatigue, and cognition.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14572506

Sleep spindles
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14573378

Temporal pattern of hippocampal high-frequency oscillations during sleep after
stimulant-evoked waking.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14568034

Eating Disorders and Body Image Disturbances among Ballet Dancers, Gymnasium
Users and Body Builders.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14571054

Evidence-based mental health use of anticonvulsants during pregnancy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14566215

Traumatic cerebral vascular injury
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14577860

Social support moderates caregiver life satisfaction following traumatic brain
injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14566583

How robust is performance on the National Adult Reading Test following traumatic
brain injury?
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14565896

Cerebral Perfusion Pressure Directed Therapy following Traumatic Brain Injury
and Hypotension in Swine.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14577861

Amusia and musicogenic epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14565905

Use of statistical parametric mapping of (18) F-FDG-PET in frontal lobe
epilepsy.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14571315
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