Pro fighters risk damage to the brain’s ‘garbage disposal’

by Radiological Society of North America edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes The brain’s waste-clearing system significantly declines in function with repeated head impacts, according to a new study of cognitively impaired professional boxers and mixed martial arts fighters. Color display of diffusion tensor imaging indicating the distribution of projection fibers (z-axis: blue), association […]

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