ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2021
Prospective study of the association between sport-related concussion and brain morphometry (3T-MRI) in collegiate athletes: study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium.
Article in British journal of sports medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Ultra-high contrast MRI: a new technique for recognizing secondary changes to the brain in patients with persistent symptoms following traumatic brain injury.Neuroradiology · 2026Article
- Population-referenced multiregional brain-volume profiles associated with performance and concussion history in athletes: an exploratory study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2026Article
- Dynamic visualization of brain pulsations using amplified MRI: methodology and applications.Interface focus · 2025Article
- Self-reported concussion history is not related to cortical volume in college athletes.PloS one · 2025Article
- Increased brain age and relationships with blood-based biomarkers following concussion in younger populations.Journal of neurology · 2023Article
- The effects of cytomegalovirus on brain structure following sport-related concussion.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
- Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Patients with Concussion in Clinical Emergency.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2021Article
- Oral Contraceptives, Concussion History, and Contact-Sport Exposure: Multimodal MRI and Brain Injury Biomarkers in Female Athletes.Neurotrauma reportsArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the acute and early long-term associations of sport-related concussion (SRC) and subcortical and cortical structures in collegiate contact sport athletes.
methodsAthletes with a recent SRC (n=99) and matched contact (n=91) and non-contact sport controls (n=95) completed up to four neuroimaging sessions from 24 to 48 hours to 6 months postinjury. Subcortical volumes (amygdala, hippocampus, thalamus and dorsal striatum) and vertex-wise measurements of cortical thickness/volume were computed using FreeSurfer. Linear mixed-effects models examined the acute and longitudinal associations between concussion and structural metrics, controlling for intracranial volume (or mean thickness) and demographic variables (including prior concussions and sport exposure).
resultsThere were significant group-dependent changes in amygdala volumes across visits (p=0.041); this effect was driven by a trend for increased amygdala volume at 6 months relative to subacute visits in contact controls, with no differences in athletes with SRC. No differences were observed in any cortical metric (ie, thickness or volume) for primary or secondary analyses.
conclusionA single SRC had minimal associations with grey matter structure across a 6-month time frame.
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