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Very much on point for football related injuries...
Brain Scans to Distinguish Between Brain Injury and PTSD
"Draper has a second project using the technique to study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the progressive degenerative brain disease affecting football players and other athletes who experience repetitive brain trauma."
If this becomes validated and has a low false positive rate, I could see players being scanned routinely or after major collisions as a matter of course. Careers will be shortened, but post football quality of life improved.
Brain Scans to Distinguish Between Brain Injury and PTSD
"Draper has a second project using the technique to study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the progressive degenerative brain disease affecting football players and other athletes who experience repetitive brain trauma."
If this becomes validated and has a low false positive rate, I could see players being scanned routinely or after major collisions as a matter of course. Careers will be shortened, but post football quality of life improved.