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| Title |
What boxing tells us about repetitive head trauma and the brain
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy, June 2013
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| DOI | 10.1186/alzrt177 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Charles Bernick, Sarah Banks |
| Abstract |
Boxing and other combat sports may serve as a human model to study the effects of repetitive head trauma on brain structure and function. The initial description of what is now known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) was reported in boxers in 1928. In the ensuing years, studies examining boxers have described the clinical features of CTE, its relationship to degree of exposure to fighting, and an array of radiologic findings. The field has been hampered by issues related to study design, lack of longitudinal follow-up, and absence of agreed-upon clinical criteria for CTE. A recently launched prospective cohort study of professional fighters, the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study, attempts to overcome some of the problems in studying fighters. Here, we review the cross-sectional results from the first year of the project. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Turkey | 1 | 7% |
| Argentina | 1 | 7% |
| Canada | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 11 | 73% |
| Scientists | 3 | 20% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 95 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 15 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 16 | 17% |
| Unknown | 22 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 16 | 17% |
| Sports and Recreations | 13 | 14% |
| Psychology | 11 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Neuroscience | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 12 | 13% |
| Unknown | 28 | 29% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 September 2023.
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#832,486
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#101
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#6,372
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#2
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