Evan Lutkenhoff (MontiLab post-doc) just published a paper in NeuroImage Clinical:
Evan demonstrated that the degree of atrophy in specific antero-dorsal areas of thalamus is related to whether patients are doing better or not 6 months post-injury. This finding is very important because it shows that the secondary non-mechanic damage inflicted by TBI is present early on post trauma, giving us a window (and a target) for potential interventions
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