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A Neuroscientific Approach to the Examination of Concussions in Student-Athletes
Published on: December 8, 2014
Auditory processing after sport-related concussions
Christine Turgeon1, François Champoux, Franco Lepore
1Centre de Recherche en Neuropsychologie et Cognition, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Objective:
The aim of the study is to investigate whether sport-related concussions disrupt auditory processes.
Design:
Sixteen university athletes participated in the study: eight had one or more sport-related concussions, and eight never experienced a concussion. The Frequency Pattern Sequence test, the Duration Pattern Sequence test, the Synthetic Sentence Identification test, and the Staggered Spondaic Word test were used to assess auditory processing.
Results:
All nonconcussed athletes have normal auditory processing. In contrast, more than half of the concussed athletes had deficits for one or more of the auditory processing tests.
Conclusions:
The pattern of results suggests that sport-related concussions can disrupt the neurological mechanisms implicated in several auditory processes, including monaural low-redundancy speech recognition, tone pattern recognition, and dichotic listening.
