A Comparison of Brain MRI Outcomes in Youth American Football versus Noncontact Sport Athletes
At ages 9-10, participation in American football was associated with minimal differences across a large array of structural, functional, and diffusion tensor MRI outcomes. While the clinical implications of these cross-sectional results are unknown, they merit additional investigation and can contribute to the ongoing discussion surrounding contact sport participation in children.
Authors
- Eleanna Varangis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2688-2297)
- Ingrid Ichesco
- Andrea Almeida
- Chia-Hao Shih (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2316-7415)
- Eric Ichesco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3767-2068)
- James T. Eckner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9630-0048)
- Xuming He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2880-2609)
- Yuanzhi Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3584-4735)
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (FR)
- Michigan Medicine (US)
- Samueli Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
- Published
- 2025-09-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1249/mss.0000000000003856
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00