Researchers are using smart helmets and imaging to study brain injury risk in young football players over a season.
The study, which was completed in collaboration with the Concussion Neuroimaging Consortium, tested the blood of college football players for biomarkers that indicate traumatic brain injuries. They found that players not only had higher levels of these markers than those who didn’...
The new study also found that about a fifth of the high school players with afatal brain injuryhad suffered an earlier concussion less than a month before the fatal injury.
whose research has transformed what we know about concussions, believes these repeated hits to the head are a silent danger. Each blow can compound the one before, sometimes without symptoms to warn of a growing injury.
American football participation is associated with a relatively high risk of sustaining mild traumatic brain injury or concussion. Concussion management practices have changed significantly over the past two decades due to rapidly progressing research. S
18 We also found greater IIV across neuropsychological testing in the NFL players, which may portend future cognitive decline.15 This study had limitations. While the findings suggest past brain injury in professional American football players, we acknowledge that TSPO is a marker of ...
A New Perspective on Brain Injury Assessment Dr. Lipton and colleagues also presented another study in which they used DTI to investigate the association between repetitive head impacts from soccer heading and verbal learning performance. For the second study, researchers analyzed heading over 12 ...
FootballHelmetAngularRiskcurveRecent research has suggested possible long term effects due to repetitive concussions, highlighting the importance of developing methods to accurately quantify concussion risk. This study introduces a new injury metric, the combined probability of concussion, which computes the ...
"So really for the first time in a series of players we have shown that there is evidence that head injury has occurred earlier in their life which presumably has some impact on them developing dementia." Dr David Reynolds from the charity Alzheimer's Research UK, said: "The causes of dem...
The study has several limitations, including that it is a skewed sample based on a brain donation program because public awareness of a possible link between repetitive head trauma and CTE may have motivated players and their families with symptoms and signs of brain injury to participate in this...