Since the 1920s, it has been known that the repetitive brain trauma associated with boxing
may produce a progressive neurological deterioration, originally termed dementia …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing public health problem worldwide and is a leading
cause of death and disability. The causes of TBI include motor vehicle accidents, which are …

OBJECTIVE: We present the second reported case of autopsy-confirmed chronic traumatic
encephalopathy in a retired professional football player, with neuropathological features that …

Literature addressing the intersection of cinema and mental health issues is varied in focus
but represents a growing interest among film and psychiatric historians, as demonstrated by …

There is a long history linking traumatic brain injury (TBI) with the development of dementia.
Despite significant reservations, such as recall bias or concluding causality for TBI, a …

Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was used to investigate the association between variation in
white matter microstructure and individual differences in reading skill within children. Unlike …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is often divided into structural MRI and functional MRI
(fMRI). The former is a widely used imaging technique in research as well as in clinical …

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease confirmed at
postmortem. Those at highest risk are professional athletes who participate in contact sports …

Background: Sports medicine clinicians and the general public are interested in the possible
cumulative effects of concussion. Objective: To examine whether athletes with a history of …

Sports-related concussion (SRC) is typically associated with functional, as opposed to
structural, injury. The results of traditional structural neuroimaging techniques used to …