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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a Real Risk for Footbal Players
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As reported in the Washington Post ... As a neuropathologist and the co-director of BU's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Ann McKee has spent more than two decades examining the brains of people who had suffered from dementia, searching for the telltale signs of what might have actually caused the condition...
... When the slides of the brain matter of a Hall of Famer footbal player, Lou Creekmur, were prepared for her to study, she didn't even need to place them under a microscope: the deposits of tau, a protein found in the central nervous system, signifying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) or "punch-drunk syndrome" were so large all she had to do was lay the slide on a light table to make a diagnosis...
... McKee expects to announce her discovery on Capitol Hill Wednesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on on head trauma in football players. Creekmur's brain is the 11th out of 11 former football players the BU center has examined for CTE and discovered evidence of the condition, buttressing the argument that repeated concussions in football have long-term effects and can lead to dementia at a young age...
... Wednesday's hearing, which will include NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association along with several medical experts, is the latest in a series of such hearings called by Congress in the last three years on the overall subject of the health and care of retired NFL players. This will be the first, however, to directly deal with concussions. And it comes a month after a study conducted for the NFL by researchers at the University of Michigan revealed higher than normal numbers of memory-related diseases in former players...
... McKee said the Creekmur case is important because his brain clearly shows that he did not have Alzheimer's and that the damage in the brain is undoubtedly CTE...
Read on at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2...
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As reported in the Washington Post ... As a neuropathologist and the co-director of BU's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, Ann McKee has spent more than two decades examining the brains of people who had suffered from dementia, searching for the telltale signs of what might have actually caused the condition...
... When the slides of the brain matter of a Hall of Famer footbal player, Lou Creekmur, were prepared for her to study, she didn't even need to place them under a microscope: the deposits of tau, a protein found in the central nervous system, signifying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) or "punch-drunk syndrome" were so large all she had to do was lay the slide on a light table to make a diagnosis...
... McKee expects to announce her discovery on Capitol Hill Wednesday at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on on head trauma in football players. Creekmur's brain is the 11th out of 11 former football players the BU center has examined for CTE and discovered evidence of the condition, buttressing the argument that repeated concussions in football have long-term effects and can lead to dementia at a young age...
... Wednesday's hearing, which will include NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and DeMaurice Smith, the executive director of the NFL Players Association along with several medical experts, is the latest in a series of such hearings called by Congress in the last three years on the overall subject of the health and care of retired NFL players. This will be the first, however, to directly deal with concussions. And it comes a month after a study conducted for the NFL by researchers at the University of Michigan revealed higher than normal numbers of memory-related diseases in former players...
... McKee said the Creekmur case is important because his brain clearly shows that he did not have Alzheimer's and that the damage in the brain is undoubtedly CTE...
Read on at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2...
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