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$2.9 million NIH grant will help IU researcher expand work on subconcussive impacts

December 18, 2020 sarah Jonas Concussions, Neurology

Every year, nearly 2.5 million U.S. high school athletes participate in contact sports. Each of these athletes sustains an average of 650 subconcussive head impacts in a single season, hits that can negatively affect brain health.

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NAU researchers publish new report, recommendations to increase concussion disclosure in athletes

October 27, 2020 sarah Jonas Concussions, Football, football concussions, ncaa, Psychology

Psychology chair Heidi Wayment co-authored the report with Ann Huffman, Deborah Craig and Monica Lininger. The work was a result of a grant funded by the Mind Matters Challenge, which provides recommendations for increasing concussion symptom disclosure in collegiate athletic departments and military service academies.

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Concussion discovery reveals dire, unknown effects of even mild brain injury

September 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, Athletes, BIG Center, Brain, Brain Injury, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia, Concussions, Dementia, Football, John Lukens, Military, National Football League, Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroimmunology, Neurological Disease, Neuroscience, NFL, Soccer, Sports, TBI, Traumatic Brain Injury, University Of Virginia, University of Virginia School of Medicine, UVA, UVA School of Medicine

Even mild concussions cause severe and long-lasting impairments in the brain’s ability to clean itself, and this may seed it for Alzheimer’s, dementia and other neurodegenerative problems.

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When it comes to longevity, any exercise is good exercise

July 17, 2020 sarah Jonas Baseball, Brain, Concussions, CTE, Exercise, Football, Head Injury, Longevity, Mortality and longevity, Neurology, NFL, Research, Sport, Tobacco

ASU sociologist finds team-oriented exercises benefit us socially and can also increase life span

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Safe Tackling, Padded Helmets Lower Head Injuries in Youth Football

March 4, 2020 sarah Jonas Brain Injuries, Concussions, Football, traumatic brain injuries, youth football

Middle school football players greatly reduce the chance of head injuries if they wear padded helmets and use safe tackling and blocking techniques, according to Rutgers researchers.

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Nanospirals that form as molten metals solidify could be key to new materials—and even invisibility

January 31, 2020 sarah Jonas Concussions, Diagnostics, Lasers, OPTICS

Humans have been cooling metal mixtures from liquid to solid for thousands of years. But surprisingly, not much is known about exactly what happens during the process of solidification. Particularly puzzling is the solidification of eutectics, which are mixtures of two or more solid phases.

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Multi-institutional team to study effects of age, gender on brain injury mechanics

September 20, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Concussions, CTE, Domestic Abuse, Football, Neurology, Sports

A team of researchers, led by Philip V. Bayly in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University, plans to use MRI to study the brains of healthy, uninjured individuals to create models of brain motion to enable the researchers to predict the chronic effects of repeated head impacts in both men and women.