School of Psychology, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK.
J Clin Exp Neuropsychol. 2009 Aug;31(6):664-81. doi: 10.1080/13803390802484755. Epub 2008 Dec 1.
Male players from football and rugby clubs and sportsmen from a variety of noncontact sports clubs at a UK university were compared on biographical and neuropsychological test measures. A data analysis paradigm was developed and employed to control the inflation of Type 1 error rate due to multiple hypotheses testing. Rugby players sustained most head injuries in their chosen sport, but neuropsychological tests of attention, memory, and executive function provided no evidence of performance impairment attributable to the number of head injuries sustained or the football, rugby, or noncontact sport groups. Footballers' heading frequency was related to the number of football head injuries sustained, but no relationship was detected between footballers' heading frequency and their neuropsychological test performance. Following discussion of pertinent methodological limitations it is concluded that there was no evidence in this dataset of neuropsychological impairment consistent with either mild head injury incidence or football heading frequency. However, a need for further research examining the long-term neuropsychological consequences of such head injuries was identified.
英国一所大学的足球和橄榄球俱乐部的男性运动员和各种非接触性运动俱乐部的运动员在传记和神经心理学测试方面进行了比较。开发并采用了数据分析范式来控制由于多次假设检验而导致的第一类错误率膨胀。橄榄球运动员在他们选择的运动中遭受了大多数头部受伤，但注意力、记忆和执行功能的神经心理学测试并没有提供任何证据表明头部受伤次数或足球、橄榄球或非接触性运动组导致了表现受损。足球运动员的头球频率与他们遭受的足球头部受伤次数有关，但足球运动员的头球频率与他们的神经心理学测试表现之间没有检测到关系。在讨论了相关的方法学限制之后，得出的结论是，在这个数据集没有发现与轻度头部受伤发生率或足球头球频率一致的神经心理损伤的证据。然而，需要进一步研究这种头部受伤的长期神经心理学后果。
