Repetitive Head-Impact Exposure and Cognitive and Emotional Symptoms in Older Retired Female Collegiate Athletes.

Objectives: This retrospective study examined whether contact sport participation, repetitive head impact (RHI) exposure, and concussion history were associated with cognitive and emotional symptoms in former collegiate female athletes.

Setting: Archival data from the College Level Aging Athlete Study, a hybrid survey of over 1,000 former collegiate athletes aged 50 and older.

Participants: Female athletes (n = 567) were categorized into contact (e.

Assessing memory for emotions separately from emotion recognition after traumatic brain injury.

Objective: Adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) often show deficits in recognition of facial emotion, but their ability to emotions is poorly understood. Furthermore, there are no practicable tasks that measure this ability. This study examined the construct of memory for emotions using a novel Facial Recognition and Memory for Emotion (FRAME) test.

Relationship between self-reported concussion history, cognition, and mood among former collegiate athletes.

: This study explored the relationship between concussion history and cognition/mood in former collegiate athletes in middle-to-later adulthood. : 407 former collegiate athletes aged 50+ ( = 61.4; 62.

Repetitive head-injury exposure and later-in-life cognitive and emotional outcomes among former collegiate football players: a CLEAATS investigation.

This study measured the relationship between head-injury exposure and later-in-life cognitive and emotional symptoms in aging collegiate football players who participated in the College Level Aging Athlete Study. Linear regressions examined the relationship between various head-injury exposure variables (head-injury exposure estimate [HIEE], number of diagnosed concussions, and symptomatic hits to the head) and subjective cognitive function, objective cognitive function, and emotional/mood symptoms. Additional regressions evaluated the impact of emotional symptoms on subjective cognitive decline and objective cognitive function.