Blows To The Head Lead To Vision Loss

Blows To The Head Lead To Vision Loss.
As more dig into focuses on the cost concussions can cause, scientists now report that even mild blows to the administer might affect memory and thinking. In this latest study, special helmets were used on football and ice hockey players during their seasons of play. None of the players were diagnosed with a concussion during the exploration period, but the valued helmets recorded key data whenever the players received milder blows to the head stop smoking. "The accelerometers in the helmets allowed us to enumerate and quantify the intensity and frequency of impacts," said turn over author Dr Tom McAllister.

And "We thought it might end in some interesting insights". The researchers found that the extent of change in the brain's white matter was greater in those who performed worse than expected on tests of retention and learning. White matter transports messages between other parts of the brain purchase. "This suggests that concussion is not the only thing we need to pay publicity to," said McAllister, chairman of the department of psychiatry at the Indiana University School of Medicine.

So "These athletes didn't have a concussion diagnosis in the year we forced them and there is a subsample of them who are perhaps more helpless to impact. We need to learn more about how long these changes last and whether the changes are permanent". The chew over was published online Dec 11, 2003 in the journal Neurology. Concussions are lenient traumatic brain injuries that occur from a sudden blow to the head or body.