The cortical structural and functional differences in athletes and novices were investigated with a cross-sectional paradigm. We measured the gray matter volumes and resting-state functional connectivity in 21 basketball players and 21 novices with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques. It was found that gray matter volume in the left anterior insula (AI), inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), in...

In two dimensions, we accurately predicted the trajectory of a basketball using approximately ten images each taken less taken less than three tenths of a second after a shooter a free throw. Our trajectory predictions were made using automatically stabilized handheld video footage of a shooter releasing a free throw. Although we used only the first few images of the shooter releasing the baske...

Experience is an important asset in almost any professional activity. In basketball, there is believed to be a positive association between coaching experience and effective use of team timeouts. Here, we analyze both the extent to which a team's change in scoring margin per possession after timeouts deviate from the team's average scoring margin per possession-what we called timeout factor, an...

The present study focuses on the effect of vicarious intergroup contact and the support of an authority figure on the improvement of outgroup and meta-stereotype evaluations. Meta-stereotype refers to the shared beliefs of ingroup members about how they consider outgroup members to perceive their group. Three preliminary studies were carried out to determine desirable and undesirable characteri...

OBJECTIVE: The objective was to determine national patterns of basketball-related injuries treated in emergency departments in the United States among children and adolescents 20 years of age. METHODS: A retrospective analysis was conducted with data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, from 1997 to 2007. Sample weights provided b...

Ahmed, T. (2015). Improving musculoskeletal fitness and the performance enhancement of basketball skills through neuromuscular training program. J. Hum. Sport Exerc., 10(3), pp.795-804. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of eight weeks of neuromuscular training program (NMTP) on musculoskeletal fitness and performance enhancement for basketball players. Twenty four male basket...

Noyes, FR, Barber-Westin, SD, Smith, ST, Campbell, T, and Garrison, TT. A training program to improve neuromuscular and performance indices in female high school basketball players. J Strength Cond Res 26(3): 709–719, 2012—The purpose of this study was to determine if a sports-specific training program could improve neuromuscular and performance indices in female high school basketball players....

UNLABELLED The relationships among physical characteristics, performance, and functional ability classification of younger wheelchair basketball players have been barely investigated to date. The purpose of this work was to assess anthropometry, body composition, and performance in sport-specific field tests in a national sample of Italian younger wheelchair basketball players as well as to eva...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the efficacy of L-alanyl-L-glutamine (AG) ingestion on basketball performance, including jump power, reaction time, shooting accuracy and fatigue. METHODS Ten women (21.2 ± 1.6 years; height: 177.8 ± 8.7 cm; body mass: 73.5 ± 8.0 kg), all scholarship NCAA Division I basketball players, volunteered for this study. Subjects participated in fou...