Decades ago, a writer likened Donald Frank’s life to an NFL fairy tale. In 1990, he was a little-known strong safety from a ...

Aperiodic activity is treated as "background noise" on brain scans, but recent studies ... report also noted that high school football players who sustained concussions displayed slowed aperiodic ...

Ultra-Powered MRI Scans Show Damage to Brain's 'Control Center ... 2024 — Nearly one third of concussions in professional American football are due to impacts from the facemask, a part of ...

Their evaluation of the football players was to understand brain rhythms and trauma, while pinpointing the effects of concussions of aperiodic activity. Aperiodic activity is treated as "background ...

Given that caveat, the following suggestions are made: brain CT (or where available, MR brain scan) contributes little to concussion evaluation but should ... encephalopathy was observed in retired ...