 | The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
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| The 131st Annual Meeting (November 15-19, 2003) of APHA |
William Eddy, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, 412-268-2725, bill@stat.cmu.edu
Over 300,000 sports-related concussions occur annually in the US. We are currently conducting a five-year study of concussion in high school athletes utilizing neurocognitive tests and functional MRI (fMRI). Administered prospectively, the neurocognitive tests provide a baseline for comparison with post-concussive test scores. The fMRI is used to detect focal abnormalities in brain activity in concussed subjects and will help characterize the neuroanatomic and neurophysiologic basis of concussion. This talk will provide a brief introduction to fMRI and, in particular, the statistical analysis of fMRI data. We will describe our ongoing study and present some preliminary results. We will conclude by discussing some of the major unsolved methodological problems which need to be addressed in this study.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.