<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Eleven retired sportsmen, who had a career in contact sports (three boxers, four footballers, four wrestlers) and one cyclist with a history of several falls from a bicycle and had been diagnosed with a cerebrovascular trauma, were investigated with auditory cognitive P300. The age range was aged between 26 and 63 years. Ten out of the twelve presented cognitive wave latency between 512 msec and 928 msec. This finding made us conclude that repetitive minor head injuries (mHI) that they inevitably had experienced during their carrier has led to cognitive problems in older age.</p></abstract>

Eleven retired sportsmen, who had a career in contact sports (three boxers, four footballers, four wrestlers) and one cyclist with a history of several falls from a bicycle and had been diagnosed with a cerebrovascular trauma, were investigated with auditory cognitive P300. The age range was aged between 26 and 63 years. Ten out of the twelve presented cognitive wave latency between 512 msec and 928 msec. This finding made us conclude that repetitive minor head injuries (mHI) that they inevitably had experienced during their carrier has led to cognitive problems in older age.

Cognitive P300 Potential in Retired Sportsmen with a Career in Contact Sports

Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine

Department of Theory and Methodology of Physical Education, Faculty of Pedagogy

Journal of Biomedical and Clinical Research

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

{"article-title":"Cognitive P300 Potential in Retired Sportsmen with a Career in Contact Sports"}

Eleven retired sportsmen, who had a career in contact sports (three boxers, four footballers, four wrestlers) and one cyclist with a history of several falls...

Cognitive P300 Potential in Retired Sportsmen with a Career in Contact Sports

Published Online: Dec 30, 2017

Page range: 29 - 31

Received: May 29, 2017

Accepted: Nov 02, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0005

Keywords
cognitive P300 potential, retired sportsmen, carrier in contact sports, “punch drunk”

© 2017 Iliya. V. Valkov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Cognitive P300 Potential in Retired Sportsmen with a Career in Contact Sports

Published Online: Dec 30, 2017

Page range: 29 - 31

Received: May 29, 2017

Accepted: Nov 02, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jbcr-2017-0005

Keywordscognitive P300 potential, retired sportsmen, carrier in contact sports, “punch drunk”

© 2017 Iliya. V. Valkov et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
cognitive P300 potential, retired sportsmen, carrier in contact sports, “punch drunk”