Even though the clinical signs of concussion are not present, some high school football players may suffer an alteration in brain function, and continue playing because nobody knows anything is wrong, report researchers from Purdue University Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in an article published in the Journal of Neurotrama. According to post-mortem evidence, repeated head blows may eventually damage the brain, even though individual blows might not provide any clinical symptoms of concussion, the researchers write…

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