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The Latest Research on Concussion May Lead to Improved Care
Two new concussion studies pave the way for more effective head protection as well as correctly diagnosing concussion. Two studies presented at the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), which took place from April 26 to May 3 in Philadelphia,...
A new way of looking at concussions
Source A new way of looking at concussions Emerging research suggests that even mild hits to the head may damage the tiny lymphatic vessels that clear toxic chemicals and cellular debris from the brain By Helen Santoro 01.20.2021 On a crisp September...
Repeat concussions declining in U.S. high school sports
HEALTH NEWS Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) - While concussion rates remain higher among U.S. high school students playing football than among those playing other sports, a new study also suggests these brain injuries are becoming less common in football practices and...
SOLVING THE CONCUSSION CRISIS: PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
This white paper is an international collaborative effort to address concussion management, science, policy and future directions. This article is driven by data and rooted in science. There has been no sponsorship or financial interest influencing the development of...
Persistent Differences in Patterns of Brain Activation after Sports-Related Concussion
Persistent Differences in Patterns of Brain Activation after Sports-Related Concussion: A Longitudinal Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study Abstract Avoiding recurrent injury in sports-related concussion (SRC) requires understanding the neural mechanisms...
Sports-Related Concussions in Youth
In the past decade, few issues at the intersection of medicine and sports have had as high a profile or have generated as much public interest as sports-related concussions. In recent years there has been a growing awareness and understanding that all concussions...
Anecdotal Evidence Provides Clues to Youth Concussions
By BILL PENNINGTON Published: May 5, 2013 Youth sports concussion clinics operate at the center of America’s heightened awareness and increasing worry about concussions among young athletes. Listening to the hundreds of stories of how concussions have occurred,...
Images of Brain Injuries in Athletes
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New Study Links Athletes’ Repetitive Head Injuries to Degenerative Brain Disease
Audio available by clicking the source "PBS" below Transcript JEFFREY BROWN: How tough is too tough when it comes to sports and brain injuries? It's an issue we have followed over a number of years. Today, there was new data to chew on. Week after week, the big hits...
Does Playing Soccer Change the Brain?
White-matter integrity alterations seen in 12 soccer pros, even in the absence of symptomatic concussion By TIM SULLIVAN November 26, 2012 Soccer is one of the world’s most popular sports. It is also the only sport where the head, unprotected, is a primary point of...
Persistent differences in patterns of brain activation after sports-related concussion: A longitudinal fMRI study
A. Dettwiler, M. Murugavel, M. Putukian, R. Echemendia, V. Cubon, J. Furtado, D. Osherson Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University Department of Psychology, Princeton University, NJ Avoiding recurrent injury in sports related concussion (SRC) requires...
Soccer Players Show Signs of Brain Damage
Soccer Players Show Signs of Brain Damage By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: November 13, 2012 Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Dorothy Caputo, MA,...
Pint-Size Football Players Are Taking Big-League Hits
Kids who play football make -- and take -- hits to the head just as hard as any high school, college or NFL player. That's what the data show; it's not partisan, it's not political and it's not trying to suck the fun out of recreational sports. Journalist Stone...
Teens Fare Worse After Concussions
By Nancy Shute Concussions affect the thinking of teenagers more than they do that of adults or children, according to a new study. But all three age groups show lasting problems with working memory after sports concussions. People use working memory for reading,...
Concussion research aims to help athletes, study of the brain – Princeton University
It's called an invisible injury, yet it affects hundreds of thousands of athletes each year. From professional boxers and college football stars, to high school soccer players and kids competing in schoolyard baseball games, concussions can be a significant injury for...
Advanced Brain Scanning Technique Reveals the Potentially Long-Lasting Effects of Concussions | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Concussions used to be thought of as simple injuries. The end of symptoms, such as dizziness and headaches, usually meant a person had fully recovered. Nowhere was this view more prevalent than in sports, where common practice dictated that players could quickly...
Concussion research makes advances | NCAA
The NCAA has an ongoing partnership with Jason Mihalik and his colleagues at the University of North Carolina’s Matthew A. Gfeller Sport-Related Traumatic Brain Injury Research Center. The group regularly creates educational resources for the NCAA membership and is...
UB Specialized Exercise Regimen Shown to Relieve Prolonged Concussion Symptoms | UB Reporter
UB researchers are the first to show that a controlled individualized exercise training program can bring athletes and others suffering with post-concussion syndrome (PCS) back to the playing field or to their daily activities. In a paper published in the January...
University Of Pittsburgh Sports Concussion Study First To Show Cumulative Effects Of Multiple Concussions In High School Athletes | Centre for Neuroskills
A high school athlete with a history of three or more concussions who sustains a new concussion may be up to nine times more likely to experience common symptoms compared to high school athletes with no history of concussion, according to a University of Pittsburgh...