• J Head Trauma Rehabil · May 2007

    Objective documentation of traumatic brain injury subsequent to mild head trauma: multimodal brain imaging with MEG, SPECT, and MRI.

    • Jeffrey David Lewine, John T Davis, Erin D Bigler, Robert Thoma, Dina Hill, Michael Funke, John Henry Sloan, Sandra Hall, and William W Orrison.
    • Department of Radiology, the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Jeffrey.Lewine@abbhh.net
    • J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2007 May 1;22(3):141-55.

    ObjectiveTo determine to what extent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and magnetoencephalography (MEG) can provide objective evidence of brain injury in adult patients with persistent (>1 year) postconcussive symptoms following mild blunt head trauma.DesignA retrospective and blind review of imaging data with respect to the presence of specific somatic, psychiatric, and cognitive complaints.Setting/ParticipantsThirty complete data sets (with MRI, SPECT, MEG, and neuropsychological testing results) were collected between 1994 and 2000 from the MEG programs at the Albuquerque VAMC and the University of Utah.Main Outcome MeasuresMRI data were evaluated for focal and diffuse structural abnormalities, SPECT data for regions of hypoperfusion, and resting MEG data for abnormal dipolar slow wave activity (DSWA) and epileptiform transients.ResultsStructural MRI was abnormal for 4 patients. SPECT showed regions of hypoperfusion in 12 patients, while MEG showed abnormal activity in 19 patients. None of the imaging methods produced findings statistically associated with postconcussive psychiatric symptoms. A significant association was found between basal ganglia hypoperfusion and postconcussive headaches. For patients with cognitive complaints, abnormalities were more likely to be detected by MEG (86%) than either SPECT (40%) or MRI (18%) (P<.01). MEG also revealed significant (P<.01) associations between temporal lobe DSWA and memory problems, parietal DSWA and attention problems, and frontal DSWA and problems in executive function.ConclusionsFunctional brain imaging data collected in a resting state can provide objective evidence of brain injury in mild blunt head trauma patients with persistent postconcussive somatic and/or cognitive symptoms. MEG proved to be particularly informative for patients with cognitive symptoms.

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