Sportsmen who suffer concussion in early adulthood may experience long-term reduction in brain function well into later life, according to a study released this week.
Although the study had only 40 participants, it is striking as it looked at the effects 30 years after the original concussions and used a wide and diverse range of tests for cognitive and neurological function, the majority of which showed some level of impairment.
This comes in the same week that Boston University School of Medicine reported that former American football player, Tampa Bay Buccaneer Tom McHale, was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by head trauma, when he died in 2008 at the age of 45.
CNN has a good write-up of the news with photos and images of th...
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