Dr. Tom Schweizer, St. Michael's Hospital (IMAGE)

St. Michael's Hospital

Dr. Tom Schweizer, St. Michael's Hospital

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People who play contact sports show changes to their brain structure and function, with sports that have greater risk of body contact showing greater effects on the brain, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, including Dr. Tom Schweizer, director of the Neuroscience Research Program.

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