Spencer Roberts, Karen Caeyenberghs
We are running longitudinal observational studies examining relationships between head acceleration events (i.e., impacts) experienced by collision sport athletes and changes in white matter organisation. This work incorporates use of instrumented mouthguards to quantify head impact exposures and is also exploring how sleep architecture and fluid biomarkers of brain cell damage respond to head impacts experienced during participation in collision sport. This work is currently being conducted in youth rugby players and adult Australian-rules football players.