Journal article
The Acute Phase of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Is Characterized by a Distance-Dependent Neuronal Hypoactivity
Victoria PA Johnstone, Sandy R Shultz, Edwin B Yan, Terence J O'Brien, Ramesh Rajan
JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA | MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC | Published : 2014
Abstract
The consequences of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) on neuronal functionality are only now being elucidated. We have now examined the changes in sensory encoding in the whisker-recipient barrel cortex and the brain tissue damage in the acute phase (24 h) after induction of TBI (n=9), with sham controls receiving surgery only (n=5). Injury was induced using the lateral fluid percussion injury method, which causes a mixture of focal and diffuse brain injury. Both population and single cell neuronal responses evoked by both simple and complex whisker stimuli revealed a suppression of activity that decreased with distance from the locus of injury both within a hemisphere and across hemispheres..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (grant numbers APP1029311, APP1006077) and a research fellowship from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.