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Our biweekly Concussion Update newsletter provides thoughtful synopses of new research, news related to concussions, listings of free webinars, and calls for study participants for research.

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Intern Newsletter–New diagnostics and imaging lead to greater understanding of concussions (12/15/23 Newsletter)

identifying executive dysfunction, soccer headers affect brain microstructure, medical cannabis and PTSD, cerebral microstructure reorganization, vision therapy for concussion, blood oxygen variability indicates functional and vascular disturbance, low level training blasts add up for US troops, increased suicidal ideation in high schoolers with concussion, pathology of intimate partner violence, blood biomarkers of neurodegeneration in boxers

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45% of concussion patients show brain injury symptoms at six months (5/4/23 Newsletter)

A research team found that a mild brain injury can create changes in coordination between different regions of the brain (thalamic hyperconnectivity) and that these changes were related to their findings that 45% of the study participants still had symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and most commonly, headaches, poor concentration, and fatigue at six months post-injury.

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