APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

The Effects of Repetitive Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Adolescence on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease in Mice.

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Biological/Neuroscience

Session: Poster Session XII

Authors

Abstract

Traumatic brain injuries are a known risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and adolescents are at greater risk of sustaining multiple mild TBI in quick succession. Researchers explore the behavioral and biochemical effects of the most common form of TBI on adolescent mice, and their impact on the progression of Alzheimer’s.

Psychopathology