Acute Temporal Dynamics of Brain Injury Plasma Biomarkers following Controlled Football Heading
Syed Ali Muqtadir, Thomas Aston, Katy R. Reid, Liivia-Mari Lember, Thomas George Di Virgilio, Graeme A. Keith, David P J Hunt, Filipe Teixeira-Dias, Ferdinand Binkofski, Colin N. Moran, Magdalena Ietswaart
This study measures plasma biomarkers after football heading to assess acute brain injury, finding significant time effects for GFAP and BD-tau but no effect of heading.
bioRxiv · Sep 15, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience