December 23rd, 2007

St. Cloud Cathedral’s boys hockey players were a little bit skeptical when their coaches dragged them into a computer lab one evening to take a 20-minute brain function exam.

The exercises weren’t particularly easy, either. In one, a mass of X’s and O’s appeared on the screen and the participant had to remember which ones previously had been colored yellow. In another, the participant had to remember which symbols (a triangle or a half-circle) had been associated with which numbers from a previous exercise.

But if the program works as anticipated, it will give doctors an objective tool to use when evaluating players who have suffered head injuries.

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