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Old 05-09-2015, 06:38 PM
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Interesting article. They say "So even in a situation where there is no obvious visible brain injury on conventional imaging scans, physicians may be able to still offer treatments that target inflammatory mediators."

I just read a report on DTI (Diffusion Tensor Imaging) that shows a direct correlation between cognitive mTBI/concussion symptoms and changes in white matter. They found that in concussions with prolonged symptoms, there is a change in how water moves through the brain's white matter. In the injured brains, the water does not move through the white matter as well as in healthy brains.

I wonder if this change in water movement is part of the inflammation.

Here is the report on MedScape
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/836164

The promising part is this will help people with PCS to show they have a true injury versus a psychosomatic injury like so many professionals claim.
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