American football makes brains struggle to keep up

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2940, 2013, pág. 11
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The brains of former American football players work harder than those of non-players to perform the same tasks. The result is the first evidence of abnormalities in the way living brains work due to the sport--and comes amid revelations that the dangers of repeated head impacts have been known to the US' NFL for some time. Autopsies of former NFL players had previously revealed higher levels of brain damage than in the general population, but little was known about how that affects living players.