Two new studies of former rugby players, involving UCL researchers, found no cases of early-onset dementia but did find potential signs of increased risk of developing dementia later on. Led by researchers at Imperial College London, UCL and the Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, with UK Dementia Research Institute colelagues at UCL, the studies involved 200 former professional rugby players aged 30-61 years old. In two papers published in Brain , the scientists report that a proportion