Contact sports could damage the brain's development in just ONE season

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Scientists at the University of Texas's Southwestern Medical Center found repeated knocks to the head interfere with a process called brain pruning, in which old brain matter is disposed of.

 

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People have been participating in contact sports for decades. In what way does it damage brain development? What age are we talking? And since equipment has evolved so much why is this happening? I smell a bit of BS.

Humans aren't that fragile.

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