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Neuropsychologic test performance in amateur boxers

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

George K. Henry, PhD

UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California

Martiece Carson-Brewer, MD

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Cognitive functions of 23 amateur boxers were as sessed immediately before and after an amateur boxing event. A range of cognitive measures were employed including tasks of verbal, figural, and incidental memory, motor functions, attention and concentration, and infor mation processing speed. Compared to their prefight performance, boxers demonstrated impairments in ver bal and incidental memory, but enhanced executive and motor functions postfight. There were no observed differences between winners and losers on any of the measures. The results are compared to other studies that have shown only minor changes in cognitive func tions in amateur boxers compared to controls.