A recent study by psychiatrists with the Iowa City VA Medical Center and University of Iowa Health Care finds that soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) have measurable abnormalities in the white matter of their brains when compared to returning veterans who have not experienced TBI. Story
A University of Iowa sports medicine expert is hopeful that a collaboration between the Big Ten Conference and Ivy League will shed new light on a peril of athletics that is becoming increasingly more high profile.
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2012.06.19 | By University Communication and Marketing | 10:07 AM
The Big Ten Conference and the Ivy League, in conjunction with the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation, have announced plans to engage in a co-sponsored, cross-institutional research collaboration to study the effects of head injuries in sports, continuing efforts dating back more than two years.
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