Sub-concussive head impacts from heading footballs do not acutely alter brain excitability as compared to a control group

Raphael Hamel; Baptiste Maxime Waltzing; Tom Massey; James Blenkinsop; Leah McConnell; Kieran Osborne; Karamo Sesay; Finn Stoneman; Adam Carter; Hajar Maaroufi; Ned Jenkinson

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0306560

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Sub-concussive head impacts from heading footballs do not acutely alter brain excitability as compared to a control group

Raphael Hamel ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raphael Hamel, Baptiste Maxime Waltzing

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: r.hamel@bham.ac.uk

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6767-3117

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Baptiste Maxime Waltzing ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Raphael Hamel, Baptiste Maxime Waltzing

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Neurosciences, UC Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium
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Tom Massey,

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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James Blenkinsop,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Leah McConnell,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Kieran Osborne,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Karamo Sesay,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Finn Stoneman,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Adam Carter,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Hajar Maaroufi,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Ned Jenkinson

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Sports, Exercise, and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Sub-concussive head impacts from heading footballs do not acutely alter brain excitability as compared to a control group

Raphael Hamel,
Baptiste Maxime Waltzing,
Tom Massey,
James Blenkinsop,
Leah McConnell,
Kieran Osborne,
Karamo Sesay,
Finn Stoneman,
Adam Carter,
Hajar Maaroufi

Published: August 1, 2024
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306560

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