image: Fig 1. Trail-making A and B reveal group differences and similarities in cognitive flexibility. view more
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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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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.
Journal
PLOS One
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
Article Publication Date
17-Nov-2021
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.