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High-Def Fiber Tracking Is The Next Best MRI To Find Brain Damage
The world needs a better MRI when it comes to finding and treating the damage that traumatic brain injury does to the brain’s inner wiring. That destruction to the brain’s axons, its nerve fibers, is essentially not visible with traditional MRIs, which diagnose bleeding and swelling of the brain. The axons form a path or ...
New Orlean Saints’ ‘Bounty’ Program May End Team In Court
The New Orleans Saints’ practice of offering its players “bounties” to injure opposing players could make the team the target of lawsuits, according to legal scholars interviewed by The New York Times. The Times looked into the issue of what legal liability the Saints team may have for ir program of paying players to actually ...
Study Shows Single Bomb Blast Can Cause Brain Damage In Soldiers
It’s a cliche, but it’s true: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the signature wound of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And it has been called an invisible injury, since you can’t see it and it typically doesn’t turn up in brain scans. But a fascinating study has found evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), ...
NIH Research Offers Clues On How Gene Variant Affects Alzheimer’s Risk
This may be a little technical, but bear with me here. It looks like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has done some interesting Alzeimer’s disease research. As the NIH explains in a recent press release (which this blog is based on), variants of the ApoE gene are strongly associated with the risk of developing ...
National Alzheimer’s Plan Includes Trial To Prevent The Disease
Federal health officials Tuesday unveiled details of the Obama administration’s ambitious national plan to fight Alzheimer’s disease, an effort that includes a $100 million landmark trial of a drug that will try to prevent those at high risk for the ailment from getting it. http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/05/20120515a.html Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week outlined ...
Girls, Younger Athletes Take Longer To Recovery From Concussions
A new study has found that younger athletes, and girls in particular, take longer to recover from concussions than older males. Those were the findings of research published in the most recent issue of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, with the lead author being Tracey Covassin, an associate professor of kinesiology at Michigan State ...
NHL Continues Crack Down On Illegal Head Checks, Suspends Flyers’ Giroux
The National Hockey League is continuing to play tough with players who are making illegal blows to the head. Earlier this week, in the middle of the Eastern Conference semifinals, the NHL suspended Philadelphia Flyers Claude Giroux for one game, according to The New York Times. http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/07/n-h-l-suspends-flyers-giroux-for-one-game/ His offense was making an ilegal blow to ...
Bengals Jacob Bell Retires In Wake Of Junior Seau’s Suicide
Here’s one of the smartest decisions I’ve seen anyone make in a long time: Cincinnati Bengals Jacob Bell is retiring from football, citing last week’s suicide by Junior Seau. Bell, who has played eight seasons in the NFL, has told numerous media outlets that he doesn’t want to risk sustaining concussions that could lead to ...
Junior Seau’s Family Rethinks Donating His Brain, Consults With Samoan Elders
Ex-NFL player Junior Seau’s brain may not wind up being donated for research, according to various press reports Monday. Seau was Samoan, and his family were slated to meet with elders from their culture before they made a final decision on letting his brain be studied by researchers. Seau, 43, committed suicide last week by ...
Frontotemporal Dementia: A Rare But Devastating Brain Disease
Frontotemporal dementia almost makes Alzheimer’s disease look like a picnic. The New York Times Sunday did a Page One story on this particular form of dementia, which it described as a “little-known, poorly understood and frequently misdiagnosed group of brain diseases that eat away at personality and language.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/health/a-rare-form-of-dementia-tests-a-vow-of-for-better-for-worse.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all “Frontotemporal dementia, also called frontotemporal degeneration ...
Ray Easterling’s Widow Describes His Decline Into Dementia
Last week The New York Times wrote a profile of ex-NFL player Ray Easterling’s widow, who describes the tortured two decades he lived as he suffered from dementia and memory loss. Two weeks ago, he committed suicide. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/sports/ray-easterlings-widow-to-keep-fighting-for-retired-nfl-players-with-head-injuries.html?_r=1&src=rechp Easterling was a plaintiff in one of several suits that former players have filed against the NFL, ...
Ex-Packers Quarterback Majkowksi Joins In Latest NFL Concussion Suit
A day after Junior Seau’s suicide, more than 100 former NFL players — including ex-Green Bay Packers quarterback Don Majkowski — filed suit in Atlanta against the league, the latest in a string of lawsuits over the issue of concussions and safety. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500290_162-57427518/nfl-faces-new-concussion-lawsuit-by-more-than-100-ex-players/ The latest lawsuit was filed Thursday in Federal Court in Atlanta, according ...
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