Cerebral cortical surface structure and neural activation pattern among adolescent football players

TR Zuidema, J Hou, KA Kercher, GO Recht… - JAMA Network …, 2024 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Recurring exposure to head impacts in American football has garnered public
and scientific attention, yet neurobiological associations in adolescent football players …

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy as the Course of Alzheimer's Disease

M Pszczołowska, K Walczak, W Miśków… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
This editorial investigates chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a course of
Alzheimer's disease (AD). CTE is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease that is the result …

Traumatic brain injury-associated epigenetic changes and the risk for neurodegenerative diseases

P Smolen, PK Dash, JB Redell - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Epidemiological studies have shown that traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases the risk for
developing neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). However, molecular mechanisms that …

Pediatric suicide: review of a preventable tragedy

DE Greydanus, A Nazeer, Z Qayyum, DR Patel… - Disease-a-month, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Concepts of suicide are explored in this issue with a focus on suicide in children
and adolescents. The epidemiology of pediatric suicide in the United States is reviewed; …

Is gender equality in brain damage 'progress' for women and sport?

J Hardwicke, R Al-Hashmi, D Forbes… - … Review for the …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This commentary sits within a context of growing cultural concern over brain damage that
occurs in many of the Western world's most popular, profitable and prized sports. After laying …

Unusual combinations of neurodegenerative pathologies with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) complicates clinical prediction of CTE

F Taghdiri, M Khodadadi, N Sadia… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background and purpose Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has gained widespread
attention due to its association with multiple concussions and contact sports. However, CTE …

'The highest confidence that repetitive head collisions causes chronic traumatic encephalopathy'? Analysing the scientific knowledge in the Rugby Union concussion …

J Kilgallon - The International Sports Law Journal, 2024 - Springer
Abstract 295 rugby players have begun legal proceedings against World Rugby, the Rugby
Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union. The claimants report they are suffering from …

Functional connectivity changes in neurodegenerative biomarker-positive athletes with repeated concussions

I Garcia-Cordero, A Vasilevskaya, F Taghdiri… - Journal of …, 2024 - Springer
Multimodal biomarkers may identify former contact sports athletes with repeated
concussions and at risk for dementia. Our study aims to investigate whether biomarker …

Associations between repetitive head impact exposure and midlife mental health wellbeing in former amateur athletes

CV Buddenbaum, GO Recht, AK Rodriguez… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Repetitive head impacts (RHI) have been suggested to increase the risk of
developing a neurodegenerative disease, and many of these individuals develop a …

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy neuropathologic change in former Australian rugby players

CE Shepherd, H McCann, CA McLean… - Neuropathology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We applied the 2021 consensus criteria for both chronic traumatic encephalopathy
neuropathological change and traumatic encephalopathy syndrome in a small case series …