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Research Article

The burden of unsubstantiated messaging: collegiate athletes’ chronic traumatic encephalopathy mechanism beliefs

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Pages 1259-1266 | Received 23 Dec 2020, Accepted 25 May 2021, Published online: 09 Sep 2021

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