Brain GameFoundation

Research & Experts

Researchers shouldn't only talk to researchers.

Brain Game creates environments where scientists, physicians, athletes, coaches, parents, former players, and affected families learn directly from one another.

Our Approach

Credibility first, always

The fastest way to lose a community's trust is to overstate what the science says. Brain Game holds a simple standard: present findings accurately, describe uncertainty plainly, and let researchers speak for their own work.

Every Brain Game program is built with participating experts who bring institutional affiliation, published research, and clinical experience — and who are willing to answer questions from a fifteen-year-old defenseman as carefully as from a colleague.

Brain Game Foundation banner: Awareness, Research, Hope

Research Priorities

What Brain Game supports

Funding and platform go toward work that can change decisions on the ice, in clinics, and around kitchen tables.

Focus Area

Concussion diagnosis & biomarkers

Work aimed at detecting injury earlier and more objectively than symptom reporting alone allows.

Focus Area

Repeated head-impact exposure

Measuring cumulative load across seasons and careers, and what recovery intervals appear to change.

Focus Area

Long-term outcomes

Following athletes over time to understand who is affected, how, and what protective factors exist.

Focus Area

Prevention & protocol design

Rule changes, training-load management, and return-to-play processes that reduce risk without ending participation.

Focus Area

Knowledge translation

Turning peer-reviewed findings into guidance a coach or parent can act on the same week they hear it.

Focus Area

Athlete & family advocacy

Ensuring the people most affected help set the research agenda rather than only receiving its conclusions.

Participating Experts

Speaker roster in development

The Utah 2026 faculty is being confirmed. Each expert will be presented with their institution or university affiliation, a short biography, and their research specialty.

Specialty

Neurology & Neurosurgery

Confirmed speakers announced ahead of the Jackson 2027 conference.

Specialty

Sports Medicine

Confirmed speakers announced ahead of the Jackson 2027 conference.

Specialty

Neuropsychology

Confirmed speakers announced ahead of the Jackson 2027 conference.