Sport-specific brain training programs gain adoption in basketball, ice hockey and soccer

Intel­li­Gym Trains The Brain Of An Ath­lete Like A Fight­er Pilot (Sport­Techie): “Fight­er pilots and peo­ple play­ing team sports have more in com­mon than you may have thought. In fact, the cog­ni­tive func­tions play­ers need on the soc­cer pitch, the ice rink and the bas­ket­ball court are very sim­i­lar to those fight­er pilots use during…

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Neuroimaging studies: In soccer, over one thousand “headers” per year can lead to brain injury and cognitive impairment

. Study indi­cates there may be a head­ing thresh­old above which the risk for brain dam­age increas­es sig­nif­i­cant­ly: An Inter­view with Michael L. Lip­ton (Dana Foun­da­tion): “Dr. Lip­ton pio­neered the use of MRI tech­nol­o­gy to detect mild trau­mat­ic brain injuries (mTBI) from con­cus­sions. Such injuries, which may bring cog­ni­tive and behav­ioral impair­ment and even neu­rode­gen­er­a­tion later…

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Needed: Clear protocols to deal with soccer-related concussions

Uruguayan mid­field­er stirs debate about con­cus­sions in soc­cer (The Globe and Mail): “The team doc­tor stepped away from his patient and motioned to the coach­es on the far side­line. He rolled his hands one over the oth­er, the sig­nal that the stum­bling play­er beside him, Uruguay mid­field­er Álvaro Pereira, would have to be sub­sti­tut­ed. In many sports,…

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