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Sport associated dementia
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n168 (Published 21 January 2021)
Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n168
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Re: Sport associated dementia
Dear Editor
Sports, Games and Dementia
Contact sports such as football,soccer,basketball,field hockey,ice hockey, lacrosse, wrestling, cheerleading, and rugby may produce concussion injuries to brain and can leads to dementia.
This may be due to minor to major single or repeated injuries to the strategic areas of the brain which are important for the recognition, registration and retrieval process in the memory circuit.
On the other hand , playing of any challenging healthy games and non head contact sports can also retard the early development of dementia.
Competing interests: No competing interests
30 January 2021
M.A. Aleem
Emeritus Professor of Neurology * Visiting Specialist in Neurology ** Consultant Neurologist ***The Tamilnadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University * Dhanalakshami Srinivasan Medical College ** ABC Hospital ***Chennai 600032* Perambalure 621212** Trichy 620018*** Tamilnadu India
@drmaaleem
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