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Message: [QUOTE="Toga, post: 2309747, member: 365"] Sometimes when I link to Medscape it will open for others - sometimes not. The basic takeaway is this - The study shows that children who began playing the game before age 12 had a threefold increased risk for depression and a twofold increased risk for impaired behavioral regulation, apathy, and impaired executive function compared to their counterparts who started playing at age 12 or older. The sample included only those who had played high school, college, or professional football, who had not participated in any other organized contact sport, and who had not had a concussion within a year of their initial LEGEND interview. Study author - Robert A. Stern, PhD, professor in the Departments of Anatomy, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center, and director of clinical research, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Boston University, in Massachusetts [/QUOTE]