Carolyn Akers
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Goubran M, Mills B, Georgiadis M, Karimpoor M, Mouchawar N, Sami S, et al.
Neurology
. 2023 Jul;
101(9):e953-e965.
PMID: 37479529
Background And Objectives: Repeated impacts in high-contact sports such as American football can affect the brain's microstructure, which can be studied using diffusion MRI. Most imaging studies are cross-sectional, do...
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McAllister D, Akers C, Boldt B, Mitchell L, Tranvinh E, Douglas D, et al.
Front Neurol
. 2021 Aug;
12:701948.
PMID: 34456852
Athletes participating in high-contact sports experience repeated head trauma. Anatomical findings, such as a cavum septum pellucidum, prominent CSF spaces, and hippocampal volume reductions, have been observed in cases of...
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Simmons D, Mills B, Butler Iii R, Kuan J, McHugh T, Akers C, et al.
Neurotherapeutics
. 2021 Mar;
18(2):1039-1063.
PMID: 33786806
Huntington's disease (HD) is caused by an expansion of the CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene leading to preferential neurodegeneration of the striatum. Disease-modifying treatments are not yet available to...
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Mills B, Goubran M, Parivash S, Dennis E, Rezaii P, Akers C, et al.
Neuroimage
. 2020 May;
217:116864.
PMID: 32360690
Collegiate football athletes are subject to repeated head impacts. The purpose of this study was to determine whether this exposure can lead to changes in brain structure. This prospective cohort...
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Akers C, Acosta L, Considine C, Claassen D, Kirshner H, Schrag M
Curr Neurol Neurosci Rep
. 2019 Jul;
19(9):64.
PMID: 31352553
Purpose: Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a vasculopathy caused by β-amyloid deposition in cerebral arterioles and capillaries. It is closely linked to Alzheimer's disease and predisposes elderly patients to intracerebral hemorrhage,...
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Newell J, Akers C
New Dir Youth Dev
. 2010 Oct;
2010(127):111-21.
PMID: 20973078
Through sustained community organizing and strategic partnerships, the Mobile (Alabama) County Public School System is improving achievement and creating beat-the-odds schools that set and achieve high academic expectations despite the...