The Drake Foundation

Delighted to announce #HEADINGStudy today, groundbreaking study looking to examine brain health in former footballers & relationship with #concussion and heading history. Partnering with London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London, Institute of Occupational Medicine Institute of Occupational Medicine and help from PFA https://www.drakefoundation.org/announcin g-the-heading-study ⚽🧠

Last week's Frontiers in TBI was another great event with a broad range of speakers and attendees. We've summarised our thoughts and are already looking forward to next year https://www.drakefoundation.org/frontier- in-tbi-2018

Congratulations to our peer reviewed journal Concussion, great to see DOAJ recognise quality and commitment to open access

Our Programme Manager Hannah Wilson has written a blog piece for Alzheimer's Society discussing the reported links between a professional football career and later-life dementia https://blog.alzheimers.org.uk/…/dement ia-footballing-lega…/

Our latest newsletter is now live at https://concussiondatabase.com with data from TRACK-TBI and research looking at post-concussion injury

We're proud to fund the #BRAINstudy in collaboration with England Rugby, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Queen Mary University of London & Institute of Occupational Medicine. For an insight into the study's investigation of the long-term effects of rugby concussions on brain health check out this video.

Since launching in November 2016, we have been working hard to build and develop the Concussion Database. Over the last six months we’ve listened to feedback from our members and made some changes we think you're going to like. https://www.drakefoundation.org/concussio n-databas-updates

Latest newsletter from the Concussion Database summarises key research published over the last month. Get the full story at https://concussiondatabase.com

Latest #concussion and #CTE research summarised in the Concussion Database at https://concussiondatabase.com/articles/1 6651/show (members). Or register for free at https://concussiondatabase.com/ if you're not already a member.
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Get the full story at https://concussiondatabase.com/articles/1 6649/show
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https://concussiondatabase.com/articles/1 6648/show
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The Concussion Database has looked behind the headlines linking history of traumatic brain injury #TBI and subsequent #dementia risk. Check out the video and stay up-to-date at https://concussiondatabase.com/
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A comparison of emergency department medical records to parental self-reporting of traumatic brain injury symptoms - open access research published in Concussion https://www.futuremedicine.com/doi/pdf/10 .2217/cnc-2017-0017
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Welcome to another issue of the Concussion Database Monthly Newsletter. In this issue we bring you a mix of research summaries, guideline changes, injury surveillance findings, a consensus statement and the latest data on commonly-used concussion assessment tools. Read the latest at https://concussiondatabase.com/
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