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Podcast with Michael Lipton, author of Rethinking Youth Sports

Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.R., discusses his Cerebrum article, his long career studying mild traumatic brain injury, and the ethical implications of kids playing contact sports.

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Rethinking Youth Sports

The latest on what we know and don't know about repeated impacts to the head.

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The Contact Sports Dilemma

Neuroethics Viewpoint

What should be done in the absence of better knowledge of how to predict the risks to an individual player? New Neuroethics column for Brain in the News.

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Football Addresses Head Trauma

With football season around the corner, the NFL is enforcing new rules in an effort to reduce head trauma on the field.

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Imaging of Cognitive Impairment from Soccer Heading-Related Brain Injury

Q&A with Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.R.

A Dana grantee's study indicates there may be a heading threshold above which the risk for brain damage increases significantly

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Hit Parade: The Future of the Sports Concussion Crisis

Ten years ago, few would have predicted that brain injuries would one day dominate the sports headlines. When former NFL star Junior Seau committed suicide this past May, the media focused almost entirely on whether the thousands of head blows he endured during his 19-year career as a middle linebacker were a contributing factor.

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