Concussion risks are outweighed by benefits of amateur sport, study finds | Concussion in sport

A large new study finds that concussions in amateur sports are not associated with an increased long-term risk of cognitive decline and that playing sports may have a “protective” effect on the brain. The surprising results, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, are based on an analysis of the lifetime concussion histories […]