Dr. Naoki Tajiri, Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Neurosurgery & Brain Repair, is co-author of a paper recently published in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of Cellular Physiology. The article, titled ”Alpha-synuclein as a Pathological Link between Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury and Parkinson’s disease” was co-authored by Dr Sandra Acosta and USF Health colleagues, Dr Ike de la Pena, Dr Marina Bastawrous, Dr Paul Sanberg, Dr Yuji Kaneko, and Dr Cesar Borlongan. The article focuses on the pathophysiological changes in substantia nigra (SN) after chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI).