Concussion in Athletics: Brain to Behavior

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National organizations have identified mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussion, as a major health concern for injured athletes at high school, collegiate and professional levels. These injured athletes have focused the research and clinical community's efforts into further understanding the pathophysiological underpinnings of the injury as well as its both short and long term effects. It is the overall intention of this course to elicit current understanding the pathophysiology, including its underlying mechanisms, predicting differential evolution and consequences of concussion. The central focus of this course is that symptoms following the concussion (e.g., headache, dizziness, balance, gait and locomotion, executive and neurocognitive function deficits etc.) may be exacerbated and /or triggered by compromised integrity of cortical, subcortical, and other areas of CNS. Thus, this concept will be discussed and elaborated throughout the course development.