Diffusion tensor imaging in athletes sustaining repetitive head impacts: a systematic review of prospective studies

DK Schneider, R Galloway, JJ Bazarian… - Journal of …, 2019 - liebertpub.com
Competitive sport participation, in contact and collision sports, exposes athletes to repetitive
head impacts. Although these impacts do not always result in overt symptomology or a …

Identifying Factors Associated with Head Impact Kinematics and Brain Strain in High School American Football via Instrumented Mouthguards

NJ Cecchi, AG Domel, Y Liu, E Rice, R Lu… - Annals of biomedical …, 2021 - Springer
Repeated head impact exposure and concussions are common in American football.
Identifying the factors associated with high magnitude impacts aids in informing sport policy …

A window into eye movement dysfunction following mTBI: a scoping review of magnetic resonance imaging and eye tracking findings

MA McDonald, M Tayebi, JP McGeown… - Brain and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), commonly known as concussion, is a complex
neurobehavioral phenomenon affecting six in 1000 people globally each year. Symptoms …

Longitudinal Functional Connectome in Pediatric Concussion: An Advancing Concussion Assessment in Pediatrics Study

AI Onicas, S Deighton, KO Yeates, S Bray… - Journal of …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques indicate that concussion (ie, mild
traumatic brain injury) disrupts brain structure and function in children. However, the …

Finite element evaluation of an American football helmet featuring liquid shock absorbers for protecting against concussive and subconcussive head impacts

NJ Cecchi, H Vahid Alizadeh, Y Liu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: Concern has grown over the potential long-term effects of repeated head
impacts and concussions in American football. Recent advances in impact engineering have …

Structural connectome differences in pediatric mild traumatic brain and orthopedic injury

AL Ware, KO Yeates, B Geeraert, X Long… - Human Brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Sophisticated network‐based approaches such as structural connectomics may help to
detect a biomarker of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children. This study compared the …

Subtle impairments of perceptual-motor function and well-being are detectable among military cadets and college athletes with self-reported history of concussion

GB Wilkerson, MA Colston, SN Acocello… - Frontiers in sports and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction A lack of obvious long-term effects of concussion on standard clinical measures
of behavioral performance capabilities does not preclude the existence of subtle neural …

Decreased myelin proteins in brain donors exposed to football-related repetitive head impacts

ML Alosco, M Ly, S Mosaheb, N Saltiel… - Brain …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
American football players and other individuals exposed to repetitive head impacts can
exhibit a constellation of later-life cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. While tau-based …

Subconcussive head impact exposure between drill intensities in US high school football

K Kercher, JA Steinfeldt, JT Macy, K Ejima, K Kawata - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
USA Football established five levels-of-contact to guide the intensity of high school football
practices. The objective of this study was to examine head impact frequency and magnitude …

Subconcussive changes in youth football players: objective evidence using brain vital signs and instrumented accelerometers

SD Fickling, DN Poel, JC Dorman… - Brain …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Brain vital signs, measured by EEG, were used for portable, objective, neurophysiological
evaluation of cognitive function in youth tackle football players. Specifically, we investigated …