Publications

Leveraging the extensive infrastructure and experienced research teams from 26 participating civilian universities and 4 military service academies, the CARE Consortium has published more than 90 scientific papers that are critical to advancing the science behind concussion and head impact exposure effects on brain health.

CARE consortium members will continue to analyze data, providing a deeper breadth of understanding to the current science. Those outside the consortium can access de-identified CARE data via FITBIR, the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research database. For any questions about FITBIR data, please contact FITBIR at FITBIR-ops@mail.nih.gov. If you have already worked with FITBIR to obtain a CARE dataset and have specific questions about the dataset itself, please contact CAREfitb@iupui.edu.

Recent Care Consortium Publications

Title	Author
Differences in sport- related concussion for female and male athletes in comparable collegiate sports: a study from the NCAA- DoD Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium.	Master
Cerebral blood flow in acute concussion: ASL findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Wang
Health-Related Quality of Life Following Concussion in Collegiate Student-Athletes With and Without Concussion History	Weber
Impact of demographic factors and reading skill on King-Devick baseline performance time	Chrisman
Influence of Self-Reported Fatigue and Sex on Concussion Baseline Assessment Scores	Mihalik
Impact of contemporary approaches to concussion management on return to play and risk of repetitive concussion in collegiate football players: Comparative analysis from the NCAA Concussion Study	McCrea
Cerebral blood flow in acute concussion: ASL findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Wang
Health-Related Quality of Life Following Concussion in Collegiate Student-Athletes With and Without Concussion History	Weber
Impact of demographic factors and reading skill on King-Devick baseline performance time	Chrisman
Influence of Self-Reported Fatigue and Sex on Concussion Baseline Assessment Scores	Mihalik
Impact of contemporary approaches to concussion management on return to play and risk of repetitive concussion in collegiate football players: Comparative analysis from the NCAA Concussion Study	McCrea
Comparison of Head Impact Exposure Between Concussed Football Athletes and Matched Controls: Evidence for a Possible Second Mechanism of Sport-Related Concussion	Stemper
Data-driven Stochastic Optimization Approaches to Determine Decision Boundaries for Medical Diagnosis	Gabriel-Garcia
Association of Acute Vestibular/ocular screening scores to prolonged recovery in collegiate athletes following sport-related concussion	Whitney
Prevalence of Potentially Clinically Significant Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings in Athletes with and without Sport-Related Concussion	Meier
The Association Between Psychological Distress and Concussion History in College Athletes	Mihalik
A cohort study to identify and evaluate concussion risk factors across multiple injury settings: findings from the CARE Consortium	Van Pelt
A Data-driven Approach to Unlikely, Possible, Probable, and Definite Acute Concussion Assessment"	Garcia
Concussion Recovery Trajectories Among Tactical Athletes	O'Connor
Estimated Age of First Exposure to American Football and Neurocognitive Performance Amongst NCAA Male Student‑Athletes: A Cohort Study	Buckley
Factors Affecting Head Impact Exposure in College Football Practices: A Multi-Institutional Study	Campolettano
The influence of self-reported tobacco use on baseline concussion assessments	Roach
Academic Aptitude Mediates the Relationship between SES and Race in Predicting Cognitive Test Scores in College Athletes	Houck
Accounting for variance in concussion tolerance between individuals: comparing head accelerations between concussed and physically matched control subjects	Rowson
Resting‐state functional connectivity after concussion is associated with clinical recovery	Meier
The Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Academic Standing on Concussion Reporting Intentions and Behaviors in Collegiate Athletes	Lempke
Longitudinal White-Matter Abnormalities in Sports-Related Concussion: A Diffusion MRI study of the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Wu
Reliability of the King-Devick Test in Intercollegiate Student-Athletes: An NCAA/DoD Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Report	Buckley
The Effect of Two-a-day Practices on Repetitive Head Impact Exposure During the Preseason and Regular Season in NCAA Division I FBS College Football: A Study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Stemper
Impact of Diagnosed Sleep Disorder on Concussion Baseline Symptom, Cognitive and Balance Assessments in Collegiate Athletes	Deitrick/Kontos
Estimated Age of First Exposure to Contact Sports is Not Associated with Greater Symptoms or Worse Cognitive Functioning in U.S. Service Academy Athletes	Buckley
Acute Sport Concussion Assessment Optimization: A Prospective Assessment from the CARE Consortium	Broglio
Clinical reaction time determinants in healthy collegiate athletes	Caccese
Multivariate base rates of low scores and reliable decline on ImPACT in healthy collegiate athletes using CARE Consortium norms	Houck
Optimizing Components of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool for Acute Concussion Assessment	Garcia
Cumulative Effects of Prior Concussion and Primary Sport Participation on Brain Morphometry in Collegiate Athletes: A Study From the NCAA–DoD CARE Consortium	Brett
Investigating the Range of Symptom Endorsement at the Initiation of a graduated Return-to-Play protocol after concussion and duration of the protocol	Brett
Blood biomarkers of acute sport-related concussion in collegiate athletes: A prospective study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	McCrea
Factors Associated with Delayed Concussion Reporting in United States Service Academy Cadets	Houston
Resting-state fMRI metrics in acute sport-related concussion and their association with clinical recovery: A study from the NCAA-DOD CARE Consortium	Meier
A Normative Reference vs. Baseline Testing Compromise for ImPACT: the CARE Consortium Multiple variable Prediction (CARE-MVP) Norms	Asken
The Effects of On-Field Heat Index and Altitude on Concussion Assessments and Recovery Among NCAA Athletes	Lempke
No Clinical Predictors of Post-Concussion Subsequent Lower Extremity Musculoskeletal Injury in Collegiate Athletes	Buckley
The natural history of sport-related concussion in collegiate athletes: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Broglio
Medical Disqualification Following Concussion in Collegiate Student-Athletes: Findings from the CARE Consortium	Schmidt
Acute biomarker levels predict return to play following sport-related concussion in collegiate athletes: A prospective study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Pattinson
Factors Associated with Symptom Reporting in Collegiate Student Athletes without Concussion: Findings from the CARE Consortium	Caccese
Concussion Risk Prediction in Collegiate Athletes and Military Cadets: A Machine Learning Approach Using Baseline Data from the CARE Consortium Study	Castellanos
Cumulative Effects of Prior Concussion and Primary Sport Participation on Brain Morphometry in Collegiate Athletes: A Study From the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Meier
Test-Retest Reliability of Concussion Baseline Assessments in United States Service Academy Cadets: A Report from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Houston
Bifactor model of Sport Concussion Assessment Tool symptom checklist: Replication and invariance across time in the CARE Consortium sample	Brett
Sensitivity and Specificity of Computer-Based Neurocognitive Assessments in Sport-Related Concussion: Findings from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Czerniak
Predictive Accuracy of the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool 3 and Vestibular/Ocular-Motor Screening, Individually and In Combination: A National Collegiate Athletic Association-Department of Defense Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium Analysis	Port
Air travel may not affect symptom recovery after concussion in NCAA Athletes and Military Cadets: A study from the CARE Consortium	Sharma
Blood biomarker profile after acute concussion in combat sports and training in military cadets: A prospective study from the NCAA-DOD CARE consortium	Giza
The association between persistent white-matter abnormalities and risk of repeat injury after sport-related concussion	Brett
Plasma Biomarker Concentrations Associated With Return to Sport Following Sport-Related Concussion in Collegiate Athletes—A Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium Study	Pattinson
Differences in Sport-related concussion for females and males in comparable collegiate sports	Master
The relationship between sport-related concussion and sensation-seeking	Liebel
Association between sports participation history and age of first exposure to high-risk sports with concussion history	Caccese
Interpreting clinical reaction time change and recovery after concussion: a baseline versus normative-based cutoff score comparison	Caccese
Progress and Future Directions of the NCAA-DoD Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium and Mind Matters Challenge at the U.S. Service Academies	Houston
Estimated Age of First Exposure to American Football and Outcome from Concussion	Caccese
Concussion and head impact exposure in college football players: Where are opportunities for prevention? A Concussion Assessment, Research and Education (CARE) Consortium Study	McCrea
Do Head Injury Biomechanics Predict Concussion Clinical Recovery in College American Football Players?	Mihalik
Detailed Description of Division I Ice Hockey Concussions: Findings form the NCAA and Department of Defense CARE Consortium	Van Pelt
Prospective study of the association between sport-related concussion and brain morphometry (3T-MRI) in collegiate athletes: study from the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium	Bobholz
Investigating the Range of Symptom Endorsement at Initiation of a Graduated Return-to-Play Protocol After Concussion and Duration of the Protocol	Brett
Concussion Risk Between Individual Football Players: Survival Analysis of Recurrent Events and Non-events	Rowson
Correction to: The Effects of On-Field Heat Index and Altitude on Concussion Assessments and Recovery Among NCAA Athletes	Lempke
Minimum Detectable Change and False Positive Rates of the Vestibular/Ocular Motor Screening (VOMS) Tool: An NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium Analysis	Kontos
Optimizing Order of Administration for Concussion Baseline Assessment Among NCAA Student-Athletes	Lempke
High Energy Side and Rear American Football Head Impacts Cause Obvious Performance Decrement on Video	Stemper
"Investigation of aerobic and muscular fitness and concussion among service academy cadets at the United States Air Force Academy: Results from the CARE Consortium"	Van Pelt
Association Between Symptom Burden at Initiation of a Graduated Return to Play Protocol and Time to Return to Unrestricted Activity After Concussion in Service Academy Cadets	Aderman
Association between Sensation-Seeking Behaviors and Concussion-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceived Norms among Collegiate Student-Athletes	Mihalik
Concussion Characteristics and Post-Injury Outcomes Between College Students and Intercollegiate Athletes	Anderson
Mechanisms of Injury for Concussions in Collegiate Soccer: An NCAA/DoD CARE Consortium Study	Kaminski
Discriminative Validity of Vestibular Ocular Motor Screening in Identifying Concussion Among Collegiate Athletes	Kontos