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Head impacts can hurt brain in young athletes before onset of CTE, BU study says

Head impacts can hurt brain in young athletes before onset of CTE, BU study says
science9/25/2025

An author said the study’s results “have the potential to significantly change how we view contact sports.”

“The whole idea with this was to look at the earliest and first things that are happening in the brain in young individuals who played these contact sports, and what we ended up finding is that these changes are occurring before CTE, or even independ... [3894 chars]