Compensation through Functional Hyperconnectivity: A Longitudinal Connectome Assessment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Table 1

Demographic characteristics of healthy controls and patients.

Characteristic	Control subjects	mTBI patients
	()	()
Gender
Male	20	10
Female	4	6
Age (years)
Mean ± SD	28.00 ± 7.55	34.52 ± 13.85
Median/range	26/(19~50)	30/(19~63)
Race
African American	2	11
White	15	3
Others	7	2
Cause of injury
Motorcycle accident	—	1
Bicycle accident	—	1
Motor vehicle accident	—	5
Struck by vehicle	—	2
Assault	—	4
Fall	—	3
Time between injury and 1st scan (hours)
Mean ± SD	—	82.64 ± 121.90
Median/range	—	17/(3~446)
Time between 2 scans (days)
Mean ± SD	84.60 ± 55.48	42.68 ± 17.48
Median/range	70/(22~225)	36/(26~89)
Glasgow Coma Scale
Mean ± SD	—	14.92 ± 0.28
Range	—	(14~15)