{"title":"The Role of Neuroimaging in Assessing Neuropsychological Deficits following Traumatic Brain Injury","authors":"Benjamin Jacob Hayempour, S. Rushing, A. Alavi","doi":"10.1177/009318531103900403","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Neuroimaging enables highly accurate and specific identification of treatable brain injuries for the purposes of preventing secondary damage as well as providing useful prognostic information. This article addresses the range of currently employed neuroimaging techniques and their utility in assessing legal claims involving the presence of brain damage.","PeriodicalId":83131,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of psychiatry & law","volume":"68 1","pages":"537 - 566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Journal of psychiatry & law","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/009318531103900403","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Neuroimaging enables highly accurate and specific identification of treatable brain injuries for the purposes of preventing secondary damage as well as providing useful prognostic information. This article addresses the range of currently employed neuroimaging techniques and their utility in assessing legal claims involving the presence of brain damage.