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In American football, players repeatedly suffer major blows to the head. As a result of these repeat hits, many athletes suffer from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease that manifests as depression, dementia, aggression and suicidal behavior years to decades after the trauma.

But the researchers behind a new study say that a single traumatic brain injury can also have lasting consequences on brain health. A team of scient