Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Repeated hits to the head in contact sports can harm the brain long before symptoms show up, according to new research reported by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study by Boston University shows that brain damage in young contact sport athletes may be visible years before CTE appears.

Research, led by teams at Trinity College Dublin and the FutureNeuro Research Ireland Center, has pinpointed the mechanism linking some sports injuries to poor brain health in retired athletes. The ...

NIH-supported researchers found a 56% loss of specific neurons in athletes exposed to repeated head impacts. Brain changes appeared even without the tau protein buildup typically linked to chronic ...

A cascade of brain injuries was evident in contact sport athletes long before they had signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), autopsy data showed. The injuries led to neuron loss, ...

In former college athletes, having had three or more concussions was associated with slightly worse physical, mental, behavioral and cognitive health five years after graduation, according to an ...

If you’ve played a sport anytime in the last century, there’s a chance you’ve heard some variation of these phrases. No matter the level of play, it’s been common to ask athletes to push past an ...

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However noble athletic pursuits provide, student-athletes are students first. Therefore, the concussion management process must honor this perspective and give student-athletes a fighting chance in ...