New study says college football players have detectable brain changes

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New study says college football players have detectable brain changes
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A new study shows that the brains of college football players already appear to display some negative effects of taking hits for several years, Reuters reports.

Researchers at Tulsa's Laureate Institute for Brain Research discovered that athletes who have been diagnosed with concussions and have played for years had a smaller hippocampus, a component of the brain that deals with memory and spatial navigation.

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Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.