Editorial: Subconcussion in traumatic brain injury

Sagher, Oren

doi:10.3171/2013.4.jns13538

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“…Avoiding concussion–the clinical entity–and treating it if it can be treated–may not be enough to avoid the early onset of the pathology of CTE/dementia. Traumatic damage to the brain, it seems, can occur without concussion ( Bailes et al, 2013 ; Sagher, 2013 ; Hirad et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: Concussion Subconcussion Hormesis and Blood Vesselsmentioning

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The brain’s weakness in the face of trauma: How head trauma causes the destruction of the brain

2023

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Of all our organs, the brain is perhaps the best protected from trauma. The skull has evolved to enclose it and, within the skull, the brain floats in a protective bath of cerebrospinal fluid. It is becoming evident, however, that head trauma experienced in young adult life can cause a dementia that appears decades later. The level of trauma that induces such destruction is still being assessed but includes levels well below that which cracks the skull or causes unconsciousness or concussion. Clinically this damage appears as dementia, in people who played body-contact sports in their youth or have survived accidents or the blasts of combat; and appears also, we argue, in old age, without a history of head trauma. The dementias have been given different names, including dementia pugilistica (affecting boxers), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (following certain sports, particularly football), traumatic brain injury (following accidents, combat) and Alzheimer’s (following decades of life). They share common features of clinical presentation and neuropathology, and this conceptual analysis seeks to identify features common to these forms of brain injury and to identify where in the brain the damage common to them occurs; and how it occurs, despite the protection provided by the skull and cerebrospinal fluid. The analysis suggests that the brain’s weak point in the face of trauma is its capillary bed, which is torn by the shock of trauma. This identification in turn allows discussion of ways of delaying, avoiding and even treating these trauma-induced degenerations.

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The brain’s weakness in the face of trauma: How head trauma causes the destruction of the brain

2023

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Impact of Sports-Related Subconcussive Injuries in Soccer Players

Díaz-Rodríguez

Salvatore

2019

Semin Speech Lang

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Sports-related subconcussive impacts to the head are receiving increased interest. Recent evidence indicates that subconcussive impacts will have greater relevance across time because of the number of repetitive impacts. Soccer players are at risk of receiving at least one impact during a soccer game. The authors review the cognitive-communication functioning following subconcussive head injuries in youth and recommendations for baseline assessments and cognitive-communication dysfunctions after subconcussive impacts in youth. The review is followed by a description and discussion of a study that assessed the cognitive-communicative dysfunction in young soccer players prior to and following a series of soccer matches and recommendations for monitoring recovery of cognitive-communication.

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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in sports: a historical and narrative review

Solomon

2018

Developmental Neuropsychology

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My objectives are to review: 1) a brief history of sport-related concussion (SRC) and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), 2) the evolution of CTE in American professional football, 3) the data regarding SRC/CTE as they relate to depression and suicide, 4) the data on the neurocognitive effects of subconcussion/repetitive head trauma (with emphases on heading the ball in soccer and early exposure to football), 5) the evidence related to SRC and neurodegenerative diseases, 6) the published studies of CTE, 7) the NINDS neuropathological criteria for CTE, 8) public beliefs about SRC/CTE, and 9) the scientific questions regarding CTE.

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Editorial: Subconcussion in traumatic brain injury

Cited by 3 publications

References 1 publication

The brain’s weakness in the face of trauma: How head trauma causes the destruction of the brain

The brain’s weakness in the face of trauma: How head trauma causes the destruction of the brain

Impact of Sports-Related Subconcussive Injuries in Soccer Players

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in sports: a historical and narrative review

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