Medical Journals

In a medical journal written in 2007 by Allan Ropper, M.D., and Kenneth Gorson M.D., it focuses on what a concussion is and discusses the correlation between anxiety, depression, and lower IQ’s in student athletes due to concussions. It states how more than a third of concussion patients report anxiety and/or depression (Ropper,Gorson, 2007). The brain's back and forth motion during a traumatic brain injury creates cerebral lesions which causes personality and cognitive changes (Ropper,Gorson, 2007).  According to a study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, it found that the risk of committing suicide increases three times for people who have had previous concussions (Fralick et al, 2016). Furthermore, in this investigation it was also found that not only did the risks of committing suicide increase due to concussions, but the risks increased even more when the concussion occurred on a weekend (Fralick et al, 2016). In a very recent medical research study on CTE and it's effects on the brain of football players, some astonishing statistics where found after examining hundreds of former NFL football players. Of the 202 players, 111 of them played in the N.F.L. — and 110 of those were found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., (Ward et al, 2017).