Carroll, Linda, and David Rosner. The Concussion Crisis: Anatomy of a Silent Epidemic.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Print. This book is primarily catered to an audience comprised of sports fans, people interested in the anatomy of the brain and brain trauma, and any parent who may be deciding whether or not their children can play a certain sport. I plan to use this book as a source of the latest scientific research on the symptoms and risks of concussions. It references how repeated blows to the head can lead to life threatening diseases in ones future. The book also evidences the particular risks of receiving a concussion at a young age, and how these injuries can greatly influence a students success in school. However, the greatest reason I plan to use this book as a source is that it provides information about the prevalence of concussions in different sports, and specifically focuses on football. The book also evidences the stances leagues like the National Football League take on the prevalence of concussions in their sport.

Wier, David R., James S. Jackson, and Amanda Sonnega. "National Football League Player Care Foundation." Institute for Social Research University of Michigan (n.d.): n. pag. University of Michigan, 10 Sept. 2009. Web. 11 Oct. 2012. This source is once again catered to an audience of football fans, players, and people with an interest in medicine. Personally, I plan to use this as a source of direct evidence to what happens to many retired football players after they leave the league. The source gives specific examples of many players who developed diseases like Alzheimers, ALA, Dementia. It also evidences how retired football players have a much higher rate of developing these diseases after they finish playing, and how the deceases are most likely a result of the sheer number of hits they took over their professional, and amateur careers alike. As a whole, this source will give me the most factual evidence of any of the other sources I have so far which are primarily theoretical.

Eagleman, David. Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain. New York: Vintage, 2012. Print. This book is catered to an audience of scientists, primarily those interested in neuroscience. I plan to use this book primarily as a source of evidence of how the brain functions, at the cellular level and as an entire entity. This will give me a basic understanding of the brain that I hopefully will be able to build off as I research the latest scientific knowledge of concussions. Furthermore, this book also gives a bit of background of the long lasting symptoms of head trauma, resulting from any hit to a head. This book does, however, lack in the fact that it never mentions football hits specifically, but rather references all forms of head trauma. As a whole, this book is the most focused in science of any of the other sources I have so far.