concussions
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Heading A Soccer Ball Can Worsen Cognition For Up To 24 Hours, Study Finds
A new study of soccer players seems to show that repeated mild blows to the head can affect athletes’ brain function, at least temporarily. It found evidence that players perform worse on simple tests of eye coordination and cognition right after heading a ball than players who simply kick it around, for up to 24…
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New Evidence Shows Even Mild Concussions Can Raise Risk For Dementia
One of fiction’s most commonly used plot devices – a knock on the head used to render someone momentarily unconscious – is a lot more harmful in the real world. A new study published this week in The Lancet Psychiatry reaffirms that traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), even those that are relatively mild, are linked to…
