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Evaluating the effectiveness of traumatic brain injury state laws among high school athletes

Injury Epidemiology, 2020
Background Traumatic brain injury legislation varies across states. A comprehensive nationwide evaluation of state traumatic brain injury laws is vital given growing populations of high school athletes. This study evaluates the effectiveness of traumatic
Alan T. Arakkal, Anna E. Barón, Molly M. Lamb, Sarah K. Fields, R. Dawn Comstock   +4 more
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Adolescents with a concussion have altered brain network functional connectivity one month following injury when compared to adolescents with orthopedic injuries

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2022
Concussion is a mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) with increasing prevalence among children and adolescents. Functional connectivity (FC) within and between the default mode network (DMN), central executive network (CEN) and salience network (SN) has ...
Katherine Healey, Zhuo Fang, Andra Smith, Roger Zemek, Andrée-Anne Ledoux   +4 more
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Association of Blood Biomarkers With Acute Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes: Findings From the NCAA and Department of Defense CARE Consortium [PDF]

, 2020
Importance: There is potential scientific and clinical value in validation of objective biomarkers for sport-related concussion (SRC). Objective: To investigate the association of acute-phase blood biomarker levels with SRC in collegiate athletes.
Broglio, Steven P., Brooks, M. Alison, Cameron, Kenneth L., Campbell, Darren E., CARE Consortium Investigators, DiFiori, Jon, Duma, Stephan, Foroud, Tatiana, Gill, Jessica, Giza, Christopher C., Goldman, Joshua, Guskiewicz, Kevin, Harezlak, Jaroslaw, Houston, Megan N., Huber, Daniel L., Jackson, Jonathan C., Katz, Barry P., McAllister, Thomas W., McCrea, Michael, McGinty, Gerald, Meier, Timothy B., Mihalik, Jason, Nelson, Lindsay D., Pasquina, Paul, Rowson, Steven, Saykin, Andrew J., Svoboda, Steven J.   +26 more
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Linked MRI signatures of the brain's acute and persistent response to concussion in female varsity rugby players

NeuroImage: Clinical, 2019
Acute brain changes are expected after concussion, yet there is growing evidence of persistent abnormalities well beyond clinical recovery and clearance to return to play.
Kathryn Y. Manning, Alberto Llera, Gregory A. Dekaban, Robert Bartha, Christy Barreira, Arthur Brown, Lisa Fischer, Tatiana Jevremovic, Kevin Blackney, Timothy J. Doherty, Douglas D. Fraser, Jeff Holmes, Christian F. Beckmann, Ravi S. Menon   +13 more
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Soccer heading and concussion are not associated with reduced brain volume or cortical thickness.

PLoS ONE, 2020
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and, since it is a contact sport, players are at risk for head injury, including concussion. Here, we proposed to investigate the association of heading and concussion with macroscopic brain structure among ...
Tiago Gil Oliveira, Chloe Ifrah, Roman Fleysher, Michael Stockman, Michael L Lipton   +4 more
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Diffusion tensor tractography characteristics of axonal injury in concussion/mild traumatic brain injury

Neural Regeneration Research, 2022
The main advantage of diffusion tensor tractography is that it allows the entire neural tract to be evaluated. In addition, configurational analysis of reconstructed neural tracts can indicate abnormalities such as tearing, narrowing, or discontinuations,
Sung Ho Jang, You Sung Seo
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Sex & gender considerations in concussion research

Concussion, 2018
The study of concussion, a common form of mild traumatic brain injury, has received increased notice over the last decade. Recently, more researchers have been addressing the historic paucity of attention over sex and gender influences on recovery ...
Tatyana Mollayeva, Graziella El-Khechen-Richandi, Angela Colantonio   +2 more
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Prevention Strategies of Traumatic Brain Injury in Football Players [PDF]

, 2019
In this project, we study the effects of the impact angle during a helmet-to-helmet collision on stress distribution and deacceleration values of the brain tissue in efforts to reduce brain injuries for football players.
Baxter, Gary, Chou, Shih-Feng, Dong, Neil X., Hall, Zachary   +3 more
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Descriptive Analysis of a Baseline Concussion Battery Among U.S. Service Academy Members: Results from the Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction The prevalence and possible long-term consequences of concussion remain an increasing concern to the U.S. military, particularly as it pertains to maintaining a medically ready force.
Allred, C. Dain, Broglio, Steven P., Cameron, Kenneth L., Campbell, Darren E., D'Lauro, Christopher J., Houston, Megan N., Johnson, Brian R., Kelly, Tim F., McAllister, Thomas, McCrea, Michael, McGinty, Gerald, O'Connor, Kathryn L., O'Donnell, Patrick G., Pasquina, Paul, Peck, Karen Y., Svoboda, Steven J.   +15 more
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Factors affecting the concussion knowledge of athletes, parents, coaches, and medical professionals

SAGE Open Medicine, 2017
Objectives: To determine the predictors of knowledge and awareness of concussion symptoms and outcomes through a survey of athletes, parents of players and coaches in sports settings in Canada. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of athletic communities in
Michael D Cusimano, Stanley Zhang, Jane Topolovec-Vranic, Michael G Hutchison, Rowan Jing   +4 more
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