Routine Hits Playing Football Cause Damage to the Brain (IMAGE)

Carnegie Mellon University

Routine Hits Playing Football Cause Damage to the Brain

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From left to right: Brad Mahon, an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University and scientific director of the Program for Translational Brain Mapping at the University of Rochester, and Adnan Hirad, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rochester's Medical Scientist Training Program, led a study of college football players that found typical hits sustained from playing just one season cause structural changes to the brain.

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Carnegie Mellon University

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