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Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury show premature cognitive decline, in some ways comparable to that of people with early Parkinson's Disease and significantly worse than that of healthy non-veterans

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Fig 1. Trail-making A and B reveal group differences and similarities in cognitive flexibility

image: Fig 1. Trail-making A and B reveal group differences and similarities in cognitive flexibility. view more 

Credit: Nejtek et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Veterans with mild traumatic brain injury show premature cognitive decline, in some ways comparable to that of people with early Parkinson's Disease and significantly worse than that of healthy non-veterans

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258851

Article Title: Premature cognitive decline in specific domains found in young veterans with mTBI coincide with elder normative scores and advanced-age subjects with early-stage Parkinson’s disease

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: VAN was the Principal Investigator funded, in part, by the Graham and Caroline Holloway Family Foundation, the JES Edwards Foundation under Grant # RP20007, and the Institute for Translational Research (formerly the Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Disease Research) at UNT Health Science Center under Grant # RI10024. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.


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