Item Details

title

DTI and MEG Imaging of Subconcussive Impacts in High School Football Players

author

Davenport, Elizabeth Moody

abstract

Football has the highest concussion rate of any competitive contact sport. High school aged males visit the emergency department for concussions caused by football more often than any other cause. While proper identification, diagnosis, and management of concussions in the emergency department can help avoid fatality and acute problems, there is still concern regarding the long-term effects of concussions. Most research has focused on collegiate football players, but recent studies have shown that head impact distributions for high school players are similar to their collegiate counterparts. The effect of these concussive and sub-concussive impacts on the developing brain is still unknown. Neuroimaging analysis of these players, particularly during times of brain maturation and growth, is important to profile the potential dose-response of brain changes occurring in relation to head impact exposure.

subject

Diffusion Imaging

Football

Magnetoencephalography

MRI

neuroimaging

subconcussive

contributor

Maldjian, Joseph A (committee chair)

Whitlow, Chistopher T (committee member)

Stitzel, Joel D (committee member)

Santago, Peter (committee member)

Moran, Rosalyn J (committee member)

date

2016-01-11T09:35:30Z (accessioned)

2018-01-10T09:30:09Z (available)

2015 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

embargo

2018-01-10 (terms)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57446 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation