A single season of high school football may be enough to cause structural changes to a teen’s brain, even when the blows do not cause concussion, according to a new study published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease.
The study is one of the first to look at how impact sports affect the brains of children at this critical age. The findings raise concern over whether repeated hits to the head can cause brain damage in youth, and whether it is possible to detect these changes at an early...
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source https://psychcentral.com/news/2018/11/19/imaging-study-shows-how-high-school-football-changes-teen-brain/140482.html
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