Measuring Brain Connectivity and Hemodynamic Alterations Following Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Primary Motor Cortex
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2015-01-08
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Concussion, or mild traumatic brain injury, is a growing concern especially among the pediatric population. Symptoms may persist beyond one month after injury and result in long term disability called Post-Concussion Syndrome (PCS). There is a lack of measures to quantitatively monitor and explore pathophysiological mechanisms of PCS. We hypothesized that since fiber tracts are often impacted in concussion, functional activation and inter-hemispheric brain communication may be impaired. We used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to quantify the magnitude of activation and inter-hemispheric communication between motor cortices using a coherence analysis. Subjects completed a resting state and tapping paradigm. We detected differences between patients and controls in coherence, suggesting alterations in inter-hemispheric communication. Given the critical need for a quantitative biomarker for recovery following a concussion, we present this data to highlight the potential of fNIRS, coupled with coherence analysis, as a sensitive measure to detect functional changes.
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Urban, K. (2015). Measuring Brain Connectivity and Hemodynamic Alterations Following Pediatric Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Primary Motor Cortex (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/26855