Sentences with phrase «subtle cognitive symptoms»

But many brain injury victims do suffer the more subtle cognitive symptoms Fitz demonstrated throughout the show.

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Mandating such a limit would dramatically reduce total head trauma, including the accumulation of sub-concussive hits that researchers at Purdue in a 2010 study found can lead to subtle cognitive deficits that evade detection via the usual signs or symptoms method.

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Because they can detect subtle signs of cognitive impairment indicating that an athlete's brain has not fully healed, even where the athlete claims his symptoms have cleared, the tests are designed to help to protect young athletes against the risk of suffering a second concussion by returning too soon, which can lead to short - and long - term cognitive problems, and catastrophic injury or even death from second impact syndrome.

The ambitious goal: to learn to identify early signs of trauma - induced brain damage from subtle changes in blood chemistry, brain imaging, and performance tests — changes that may show up decades before visible symptoms such as cognitive impairment, depression, and impulsive behavior.