Concussion in chronic traumatic encephalopathy

TD Stein, VE Alvarez, AC McKee - Current pain and headache reports, 2015 - Springer
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that
occurs in association with repetitive mild traumatic brain injury. It is associated with a variety …

A systematic review of neuroimaging findings in children and adolescents with sports-related concussion

E Chamard, JD Lichtenstein - Brain injury, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Sport-related concussion (SRC) generally does not result in structural
anomalies revealed through clinical imaging techniques such as MRI and CT. While …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of repetitive subconcussive collisions on brain integrity in collegiate football players over a single football season: a multi-modal neuroimaging …

SM Slobounov, A Walter, HC Breiter, DC Zhu, X Bai… - Neuroimage …, 2017 - Elsevier
The cumulative effect of repetitive subconcussive collisions on the structural and functional
integrity of the brain remains largely unknown. Athletes in collision sports, like football …

Collegiate women's soccer players suffer greater cumulative head impacts than their high school counterparts

E McCuen, D Svaldi, K Breedlove, N Kraz… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Soccer is the source of the highest concussion rates among female athletes and is
associated with neurological deficits at many levels of play. Despite its importance to our …

Lewy body pathology and chronic traumatic encephalopathy associated with contact sports

JW Adams, VE Alvarez, J Mez, BR Huber… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic brain injury has been associated with increased risk of Parkinson disease and
parkinsonism, and parkinsonism and Lewy body disease (LBD) can occur with chronic …

Reliability and accuracy of helmet-mounted and head-mounted devices used to measure head accelerations

B Cummiskey, D Schiffmiller… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The attention given to brain injury has grown in recent years as its effects have become
better understood. A desire to investigate the causal agents of head trauma in athletes has …

Longitudinal changes in resting state fMRI brain self-similarity of asymptomatic high school American football athletes

B Fitzgerald, S Bari, N Vike, TA Lee, RJ Lycke… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
American football has become the focus of numerous studies highlighting a growing
concern that cumulative exposure to repetitive, sports-related head acceleration events …

Mild concussion, but not moderate traumatic brain injury, is associated with long-term depression-like phenotype in mice

NM Bajwa, S Halavi, M Hamer, BD Semple… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Mild traumatic brain injuries can lead to long-lasting cognitive and motor deficits, increasing
the risk of future behavioral, neurological, and affective disorders. Our study focused on long …

Concussion management plan compliance: a study of NCAA power 5 conference schools

TA Buckley, CM Baugh… - … journal of sports …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: In response to concerns over concussions and repeated head impacts that
occur during sports, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) mandated that all …

The role of medical imaging in the recharacterization of mild traumatic brain injury using youth sports as a laboratory

TM Talavage, EA Nauman, LJ Leverenz - Frontiers in neurology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The short-and long-term impact of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an increasingly vital
concern for both military and civilian personnel. Such injuries produce significant social and …