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
… Results on cortical thickness are in contrast to previous observations in retired male soccer
players that revealed cortical thinning in right inferolateral parietal, temporal and occipital …

The brains of elite soccer players are subject to experience-dependent alterations in white matter connectivity

ZF Yao, IG Sligte, D Moreau, S Hsieh, CT Yang… - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
… view of soccer players’ brains in a sample of twenty-five right-handed male elite soccer
players aged … neuron changes (ie, gain or loss), even in the absence of concussion diagnoses. …

Soccer heading and concussion are not associated with reduced brain volume or cortical thickness

TG Oliveira, C Ifrah, R Fleysher, M Stockman… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… whose data are included in this report were adult amateur soccer players recruited between
… As such, our findings do not preclude brain volume loss due to neurodegenerative disease …

Age at first exposure to tackle football is associated with cortical thickness in former professional American football players

D Kaufmann, N Sollmann, E Kaufmann… - … cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… evidence of cortical thinning in former athletes who … cortical thickness, AFE to tackle football,
and later-life neuropsychological function in symptomatic former professional football players

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
… , with the magnitude of cortical thinning directly proportional to athletes’ history of … Similarly,
former male professional soccer players had thinner cortices than former male professional

Brain glucose metabolism and gray matter volume in retired professional soccer players: a cross-sectional [18F] FDG-PET/MRI study

MR Aranha, AM Coutinho… - Arquivos de Neuro …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Loss of consciousness was reported by 3/19 (16%) players. … with controls, American football
players with TES and … temporal lobe structures and frontal cortex (with minor involvement of …

The effect of playing career on chronic neurophysiological changes in retired male professional football players. An exploratory study using transcranial magnetic …

AJ Pearce, J Tallent, AK Frazer, B Rist, DJ Kidgell - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
… Particularly in dementia, the loss of synaptic density and abnormalities in neurotransmission
… , demonstrating abnormal cortical physiology associated with total career exposure, suggest …

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
… In contrast, our data showed significant cortical thinning in the fronto-occipital regions of
adolescent football players’ brains, accompanied by cortical thickening in the cingulate cortex. …

Cerebral and cognitive modifications in retired professional soccer players: TC-FOOT protocol, a transverse analytical study

S Kepka, F Lersy, J Godet, F Blanc, M Bilger… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… following features: loss of consciousness, loss of memory, … may or may not involve loss of
consciousness and cannot be … and mean cortical thickness of certain cortical regions) will be …

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… - … cortex, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… Australian football playerscortical thinning, primarily in the frontal areas, of the HoC
athletes compared to controls. This aligns with previous work reporting cortical thinning in former