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     <title>Minor league hockey players unable to identify concussion symptoms, study says</title>
   	 <description>When Chicago Blackhawk's leading scorer Martin Havlat returned to the ice for game four of the Western Conference Final after sustaining a concussion only two days earlier, questions were raised surrounding his swift return. According to a new study by St. Michael's Hospital neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano, similar questions were raised by 25% of minor league hockey players who did not know if an athlete with symptoms of a concussion should continue to play hockey. Nearly a majority of these players were also unable to identify a concussion or its related symptoms.</description>
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	 <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:51:54 EST</pubDate>
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     <title>Playing, and even watching, sports improves brain function</title>
   	 <description>Being an athlete or merely a fan improves language skills when it comes to discussing their sport because parts of the brain usually involved in playing sports are instead used to understand sport language, new research at the University of Chicago shows.</description>
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	 <pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:21:29 EST</pubDate>
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