Multi-year concussion research study underway
Feb 25, 2020
Researchers at Penn State are in the midst of a multi-year research study that seeks to examine the consequences of head acceleration events and their relationship to the disruption of normal brain development. The investigators also seek to identify any critical threshold between subconcussive…News Topics: KinesiologyConcussions
Dyslexia gene may predict concussion susceptibility among football players
Oct 30, 2018
A gene associated with the learning disorder dyslexia may offer researchers clues about variations in individual athletes’ susceptibility to concussions, according to a pilot study by Penn State and Northwestern University. The results were published in the Journal of Neurotrauma on Oct. 23. The…