Association of player position and functional connectivity alterations in collegiate American football players: an fMRI study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Resting state-fMRI, provides a sensitive method for detecting changes in brain functional integrity, both with respect to regional oxygenated blood flow and whole network connectivity. The primary goal of this report was to examine alterations in functional connectivity in collegiate American football players after a season of repetitive head impact exposure.

Methods

Collegiate football players completed a rs-fMRI at pre-season and 1 week into post-season. A seed-based functional connectivity method, isolating the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), was utilized to create individual functional connectivity maps. During group analysis, first, voxel-wise paired sample t-tests identified significant changes in connectivity from pre- to post-season, by player, and pre

SUBMITTER: Griffith O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11776490 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature