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Your Brain On Sugar Is Less Smart, Forgetful, Study Says
Processed sugar can not only make you fat, it can wreak havoc on your brain, interfering with memory and learning, according to a study done at the University of California at Los Angeles. In a press release last week, UCLA said that a new “rat study” is the first research to demonstrate that “a diet ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ex-NFL Player Junior Seau’s Brain Will Be Donated For Study
It turns out that the family of former NFL player Junior Seau, who committed suicide Wednesday, will permit his brain to be examined and studied by researchers, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/05/sports/team-chaplain-says-seau-family-will-donate-brain-for-research.html?_r=1&ref=sports In a story Saturday, The Times reported that a chaplain for the San Diego Chargers, one of the teams that Seau ...
Suicide Victim Junior Seau’s Family May Have His Brain Tested For TBI
On Thursday every sports writer in America was trying to make sense of the suicide of “Future Hall of Famer” Junior Seau. And most of them were raising the same issue that I raised yesterday: Did brain injury from playing pro ball prompt him to pull the trigger and fatally shoot himself in the chest. ...
Boxers’ Brains Exhibit Changes Even Before Symptoms Of Damage Appear
A pioneering study on boxers has found that their brains undergo changes after repeated blows, changes before they show any symptoms, according to a story this week in The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/research/study-shows-changes-in-fighters-brains-before-symptoms.html?_r=1 The article was about research being conducted by the Cleveland Clinic’s Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The work is the year-old ...
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