Changes in brain metabolites and resting-state connectivity in collegiate basketball players as a function of play time.

Background And Purpose: Magnetic resonance (MR) biomarkers are emerging for sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the effect of play time has not been characterized. Our goal was to characterize brain and inflammatory marker changes as a function of play time.

Methods: Nine male players (21±2 years old) from a single collegiate basketball team were included.