NFL players who reported experiencing symptoms of concussion during their careers showed problems with memory and cognition decades after retirement, according to a new study.
NFL players who reported experiencing symptoms of concussion during their careers showed problems with memory and cognition decades after retirement, according to abolstering troubling research as concerns grow over the toll paid by athletes competing in America’s most popular sport.
The cognitive disparity between players with the highest and lowest reported concussion symptoms were so great they equalled cognitive declines usually observed between people decades apart, the researchers found, with differences in visual memory scores roughly the same as the differences between a typical 35-year-old and 60-year-old.
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