For every year of absorbing the pounding and repeated head collisions that come with playing football, a person’s risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy increases by 30%, according to new research. For every 2.6 years of play, the risk of developing the condition doubles, the study finds. These new findings from an analysis of 266 deceased former...
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Examining the Long-term Effects of Concussion in Sport
What do we currently know about the long-termeffects of concussions obtained through sport? In short, the answer is ‘very little’. While we may recognize the short-term symptoms of a concussion, not much is known about the long-termimpact of both concussions and sub-concussive head impacts (for example, when heading a football). Recent years have seen this topic brought into the public eye,...
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Playing high school football changes the teenage brain
A single season of high school football may be enough to cause microscopic changes in the structure of the brain, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The researchers used a new type of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)...