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Lecture 1 – Sports Related Concussions January 11, 2021Concussion: damage that occurs to the brain’s neural and glial networks from a force
translated to the body
Incidence of Concussions (NCAA)
Men’s football (1st) highest annual national estimate
o More athletes typically in football higher rate
Women’s soccer (2nd) and basketball (3rd)
o Physiological differences?
o Women more likely to speak to trainers about having a concussion?
Men’s basketball (4th)
Mechanism
1. Linear (translational) acceleration
a. Head snaps forward
2. Rotational (angular) acceleration
a. Head turns to side very quickly primary mitigator for concussions
3. Impact deceleration
a. Head hits the ground
4. Impact deceleration secondary to the head striking an opposing player’s body
a. Head to knee
Coup and Contre-coup Injuries
Frontal and temporal lobes at increased risk for concussive injury
o Frontal lobe hits running backs knee (initial contact made) coup
o Temporal lobe sloshes back (contact force on occipital bone) contre-coup
Frontal lobe = executive and high-level cognitive function
Temporal lobe = memory and language function
Neurometabolic
Increase in extracellular potassium
Increased demand of energy to establish
homeostasis
Build-up of lactate to decrease activity of brain
Decrease in cerebral blood flow
Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT-5)
State months in reverse order
Memory recall task
Reverse number recall task
State months in reverse order
Balance task (i.e., single leg stance)
Concussed individuals may do well on all tasks important to identify these people
Can use more lab-based measures determine specific deficits from concussion
, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Symptoms
Typically associated with individuals later in life (50s-70s)
Can be associated with people younger in age (18)
Smaller brain (atrophy), larger ventricles
Progressive decline of memory and cognition
Depression and suicidal behaviour
Poor impulse control and aggressiveness
Parkinsonism
(eventually) dementia
Motor neuron disease (similar to ALS)
Causes of CTE
1. Repetitive brain trauma that occurs with/without symptomatic concussion
2. Athletes in contact sports may experience many subconcussive impacts
3. Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) from a force transmitted to the head collision
between brain and skull or strain on tissue and vasculature of brain
4. Strong link between concussion and CTE
CTE: Neural Pathological Investigation
Top left: whole mount section of frontal cortex showing very focal deposition of tau
protein around small blood vessels
Bottom left: shows dense tau immunoreactive NFTs around small blood vessels and
extensive tau immunoreactive neurites in neuropil immediately surrounding the
area
Distinct from other similar brain disorders distinguishing feature is damage to
neural and glial networks around small vessels in deep folds of brain
Neuropsychological Assessment for Concussion
Evaluate executive function Trail making task or Ray-Osterreith Complex Figure
Test may not be reliable
Neuropsychological-Neurophysiological Assessment
ERP measures cognition
1. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) averaged electrical brain responses to
time-locked stimuli
2. N2pc = ERP component related to the focusing of visuospatial attention
3. P300 = measure of stimulus classification processing speed
Study
Used football players 9 months removed from last concussive episode in 3 groups
1. Athletes never diagnosed with concussion
2. Athletes with one confirmed concussion
3. Athletes with two or more concussions
Performance on basic neuropsychological measures all equal between groups
No difference in amplitude of N2pc in all groups consistent visuospatial abilities
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