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It’s an old NFL maxim that a player’s legs are the first things to fail him. But it might actually be his brain. If a breakthrough in brain research stands up to empirical review, we may no longer have to wait until players like Dave Duerson and Junior Seau die to know if a lifetime of skull-rattling hits left them debilitated by dementia and depression.
A test developed by researchers at UCLA could use a routine PET scan to check players for evidence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative neurological disease that has been linked to repeated head trauma and until now could only be diagnosed posthumously. It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the test, detailed Tuesday in The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry. Just a few years...
When it comes to this week’s football stories, Dr. Julian Bailes is no Katie Couric. Everybody is goosed to see Couric’s interview with Manti Te’o. Almost nobody wants to read what Bailes had to say, even though it could ... more »
If you are someone who plays football, or love someone who plays football, this is a story you should hear. This is a story that could save a life. A couple of weeks ago, Jeffrey Kutcher got a call from a now retired six-year... more »
The story of Junior Seau is tragic, and banal. On Jan. 9, the National Institutes of Health confirmed that the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker, who in May 2012 committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, suffered ... more »
By accepting the head coaching position with the Philadelphia Eagles last week, Chip Kelly also welcomed the rigors of running the preeminent team in one of the country's toughest sports cities -- the same place that infamously... more »
You are probably not appreciated enough at your work. I don't know you, probably, and so I don't know what you do or how well you do it, but it's likely that you are underappreciated in the doing of it. This is not your fault or... more »
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