Eye Movements Detect Differential Change after Participation in Male Collegiate Collision versus Non-Collision Sports.

ABSTRACT: Although neuroimaging studies of collision (COLL) sport athletes demonstrate alterations in brain structure and function from pre- to post-season, reliable tools to detect behavioral/cognitive change relevant to functional networks associated with participation in collision sports are lacking. This study evaluated the use of eye-movement testing to detect change in cognitive and sensorimotor processing among male club collegiate athletes after one season of participation in collision sports of variable exposure. We predicted that COLL (High Dose [hockey], n = 8; Low Dose [rugby], n = 9) would demonstrate longer reaction times (antisaccade and memory-guided saccade [MGS] latencies), increased inhibitory errors (antisaccade error rate), and poorer spatial working memory (MGS spatial accuracy

SUBMITTER: Gallagher VT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8655805 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature