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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
In an investigation of head impact burden and change in neurocognitive function during a season of youth football, researchers find that sub-concussive impacts are not correlated with worsening performance in neurocognitive function.
[...] A research team, led by Sean Rose, MD, pediatric sports neurologist and co-director of the Complex Concussion Clinic at Nationwide Children's Hospital, followed 112 youth football players age 9-18 during the 2016 season in a prospective study.
"When trying to determine the chronic effects of repetitive sub-concussive head impacts, prospective outcomes studies are an important complement to the existing retrospective studies," says Dr. Rose. "In this study of primary school and high school football players, a battery of neurocognitive outcomes tests did not detect any worsening of performance associated with cumulative head impacts."
[...] In their secondary analysis, they found that younger age and reported history of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) predicted score changes on several cognitive testing measures and parent-reported ADHD symptoms. Additionally, a reported history of anxiety or depression predicted changes in scores of symptom reporting.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by jmorris on Thursday October 18 2018, @02:54AM
We still know almost nothing more than we did, and we won't. We do know that a lot of really successful folk played various contact sports back in the age before we all became snowflakes. And the science is pretty much useless since agendas have invaded it. See the next Soylent article for an example of why nobody trusts science anymore in general and especially once politics or money touch it. Both are touching the brain injury in football question.