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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Clin North Am. 2014 Jan 14;37(1):125–140. doi: 10.1016/j.psc.2013.11.003

Table 1.

Lesion-Psychiatric Correlates after Pediatric TBI

Disorder Lesion Correlate (timing of outcome) Source
Novel Psychiatric Disorder Lower fractional anisotropy in bilateral frontal, temporal lobes, uncinate fasiculi, centrum semiovale (3 months) [12]
Personality Change due to TBI Superior frontal gyrus (6 and 12 months) [10, 43]
Frontal white matter (24 months) [43]
ADHD Right putamen, thalamus (12 months) [20, 51]
Orbital frontal gyrus (6 months) [46]
PTSD (re-experiencing criterion) Right limbic area (including cingulum, hippocampus) lower lesion fraction (12 months) [63]
PTSD (hyperarousal symptoms) Left temporal lesions and lower frequency of orbitofrontal lesions (12 months) [64]
Obsessions Mesial prefrontal and temporal (12 months) [67]
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Frontal and temporal lobe (3-9 months) [66]
Anxiety Disorder/subclinical anxiety disorder Superior frontal gyrus (6 months) Lower frequency of orbitofrontal lesions (12 months) [64, 68]
Non-Anxious Depressive Disorder/subclinical depressive disorder Left inferior frontal gyrus and left temporal tip (6 months) [72]
Anxious Depressive disorder/subclinical depressive disorder Right frontal lobe white matter and left parietal lobe (6 months) [72]
Mania/Hypomania Frontal lobe and temporal lobe (3-24 months) [70]