Sex Differences in Cerebral Blood Flow Associated with a History of Concussion
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Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that a history of sport concussion may lead to long-term changes in brain physiology, with cerebral blood flow (CBF) being particularly sensitive to injury. However, it is unknown whether these changes are sex specific. The goal of this study was to evaluate sex differences in CBF of asymptomatic athletes, with and without a history of concussion (HOC) using arterial spin labeling (ASL). Scans were acquired for 122 athletes, including those without HOC (33 male, 33 female) and those with HOC (28 male, 28 female). Males with HOC had lower CBF bilaterally than males without HOC, seen predominantly in the temporal lobes. In contrast, females with HOC showed no significant differences relative to females without HOC, although they had significantly higher variability in temporal CBF values compared with males with HOC. Additional analyses within the HOC groups found that females with multiple concussion had lower CBF posteriorly compared with those with a single concussion, whereas males showed no significant effects. This study provides the first evidence of sex differences in CBF associated with HOC.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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