Comprehensive Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Characterization of Former Professional Football Players: Implications for Neurorehabilitation

Conclusions: In high-functioning former professional football players, impairments were observed in several neuropsychiatric domains and on experimental measures of executive function. Many findings were attributable to concussion history rather than to cohort characteristics. As inconsistency of responding) mediated relationships between concussion exposure and Mania, Aggression, and Depression (partially), it warrants further investigation; if it does increase vulnerability to expression of neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals with a history of multiple concussions, this would constitute a novel and important treatment target.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - Category: Neurology Source Type: research