Presentation Year

2019

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Summer Anne ThornfeldtPsychologyGraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

The study addressed reserve and symptoms following a single sports-related concussion (SRC). Reserve is the biological/cognitive differences between individuals that protect against cognitive changes following a SRC. A SRC can lead to brain damage, and thus a loss of reserve. The ImPACT is a neurocognitive test taken before an athletic season and following a SRC, which was used as a proxy for reserve. Symptoms were explored using PCSS, a symptom checklist. It was found that those with low pre-SRC reserves had better outcomes that those with high pre-SRC reserves, and that females reported more symptoms than males. Reasons for these findings and suggestions for SRC management were explored.

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Yes

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600

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