Concussions

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…

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…