Identifying degenerative effects of repetitive head trauma with neuroimaging: a clinically-oriented review

BM Asken, GD Rabinovici - Acta neuropathologica communications, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background and Scope of Review Varying severities and frequencies of head
trauma may result in dynamic acute and chronic pathophysiologic responses in the brain …

Multi-modal biomarkers of repetitive head impacts and traumatic encephalopathy syndrome: A clinicopathological case series

BM Asken, JA Tanner, L VandeVrede… - Journal of …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES) criteria were developed to aid diagnosis of
chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) pathology during life. Interpreting clinical and …

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 …

Precision concussion management: approaches to quantifying head injury severity and recovery

DN de Souza, M Jarmol, CA Bell, C Marini, LJ Balcer… - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mitigating the substantial public health impact of concussion is a particularly difficult
challenge. This is partly because concussion is a highly prevalent condition, and diagnosis …

Longitudinal Alterations of Cerebral Blood Flow in High‐Contact Sports

M Karimpoor, M Georgiadis, MY Zhao… - Annals of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Repetitive head trauma is common in high‐contact sports. Cerebral blood flow
(CBF) can measure changes in brain perfusion that could indicate injury. Longitudinal …

White and gray matter abnormalities in Australian footballers with a history of sports-related concussion: an MRI study

B Major, GF Symons, B Sinclair, WT O'Brien… - Cerebral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sports-related concussion (SRC) is a form of mild traumatic brain injury that has been linked
to long-term neurological abnormalities. Australian rules football is a collision sport with …

The presence of the temporal horn exacerbates the vulnerability of hippocampus during head impacts

Z Zhou, X Li, AG Domel, EL Dennis… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hippocampal injury is common in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients, but the underlying
pathogenesis remains elusive. In this study, we hypothesize that the presence of the …

Cortical thickness and neurocognitive performance in former high‐level female soccer and non‐contact sport athletes

FK Haase, A Prien, L Douw… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background Long‐term effects of playing soccer (football) on the brain structure and function
of the brain are vividly debated. While some studies showed differences in neurocognitive …

Helmet technology, head impact exposure, and cortical thinning following a season of high school football

JA Dudley, AB Slutsky-Ganesh, JA Diekfuss… - Annals of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of wearing older, lower-ranked football
helmets (LRank) to wearing newer, higher-ranked football helmets (HRank) on pre-to post …

Multiparameter cortical surface morphology in former amateur contact sport athletes

G Recht, J Hou, C Buddenbaum, H Cheng… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The lifetime effects of repetitive head impacts have captured considerable public and
scientific interest over the past decade, yet a knowledge gap persists in our understanding of …