Caccese, Jaclyn B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2329-3603
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Iverson, Grant L.
Hunzinger, Katherine J.
Asken, Breton M.
Clugston, James R.
Cameron, Kenneth L.
Houston, Megan N.
Svoboda, Steven J.
Jackson, Jonathan C.
McGinty, Gerald T.
Estevez, Carlos A.
Susmarski, Adam J.
Enrique, Alexander
Bryk, Kelsey N.
Broglio, Steven P.
McAllister, Thomas W.
McCrea, Michael
Pasquina, Paul F.
Buckley, Thomas A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Collegiate Athletic Association (CARE Consortium)
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (W81XWH-14-2-0151)
Article History
Accepted: 20 December 2020
First Online: 11 January 2021
Declarations
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: This publication was made possible, in part, with support from the Grand Alliance CARE Consortium, funded by the NCAA and the DoD. The USAMRAA, Fort Detrick, MD, USA, is the awarding and administering acquisition office. This work was supported by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs through the Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury Program under Award No. W81XWH-14-2-0151. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the DoD (DHP funds).
: Grant Iverson, Ph.D. serves as a scientific advisor for BioDirection, Inc., Sway Operations, LLC, and Highmark, Inc. He has a clinical and consulting practice in forensic neuropsychology, including expert testimony, involving individuals who have sustained mild TBIs (including athletes). He has received research funding from several test publishing companies, including ImPACT Applications, Inc., CNS Vital Signs, and Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR, Inc.). He has received research funding as a principal investigator from the National Football League, and salary support as a collaborator from the Harvard Integrated Program to Protect and Improve the Health of National Football League Players Association Members. He acknowledges unrestricted philanthropic support from ImPACT Applications, Inc., the Heinz Family Foundation, the Mooney-Reed Charitable Foundation, and the Spaulding Research Institute. None of the other authors have any conflicts of interest to declare.
: The local Institutional Review Board at each of the performance sites and the US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Human Research Protection Office (HRPO) reviewed and approved all study procedures. This study was performed in accordance with the standards of ethics outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Participants provided written informed consent prior to participation.
: Not applicable.
: The CARE Consortium datasets generated and analyzed during the current study are available in the FITBIR repository (ExternalRef removed).
: Not applicable.
: JBC was involved in the conception and design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the article, and final approval of the version to be submitted. GLI and TAB were involved in the conception and design of the study, the interpretation of data, revising the article for important intellectual content, and final approval of the version to be submitted. KJH was involved in the conception and design of the study, the analysis of data, revising the article for important intellectual content, and final approval of the version to be submitted. All of the remaining authors were involved in the conception and design of the study, revising the article for important intellectual content, and final approval of the version to be submitted.