All posts tagged 'brain injury'

Ray Easterling’s Widow Describes His Decline Into Dementia

Posted on May 7th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Ex-Packers Quarterback Majkowksi Joins In Latest NFL Concussion Suit

Posted on May 5th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Ex-NFL Player Junior Seau’s Brain Will Be Donated For Study

Posted on May 5th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Suicide Victim Junior Seau’s Family May Have His Brain Tested For TBI

Posted on May 4th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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Boxers’ Brains Exhibit Changes Even Before Symptoms Of Damage Appear

Posted on April 27th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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...
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High-Def Fiber Tracking Is The Next Best MRI To Find Brain Damage

Posted on April 20th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

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..
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On Rounds With Renowned New Jersey Brain Tumor Specialist

Posted on April 19th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

Joseph Landolfi, a blue-collar kid from Tony Soprano’s North Jersey, has a challenging job. He is director of neuro-oncology at the JFK Brain Tumor Center in Edison, N.J. As such, he has to deliver a lot of bad news to patients. “It’s not always an easy job … It’s not..
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New York Cop Miraculously Skirts Death After Being Stabbed In Brain

Posted on April 19th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

It’s such a remarkable story that it made the front pages of not only the New York City tabloids but The New York Times today. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/nyregion/new-york-officer-stabbed-in-head-is-called-luckiest-unlucky-man.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/knife-rammed-nypd-officer-eder-loor-brain-sliver-leaving-blind-voiceless-paralyzed-dead-surgeon-article-1.1063995 A Manhattan police officer was stabbed in the brain by an attacker Tuesday. Yet the cop managed to pull the knife’s three-inch blade ..
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MIT Research Finds New Method To Monitor Intercranial Pressure

Posted on April 16th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

MIT researchers have developed a new way to monitor pressure in the brain, a method far less invasive than drilling a hole through a patient’s skull. MIT announced the new procedure in a press release it issued last Wednesday, which began by explaining that “brain tumors and head trauma, including concussions, can..
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Ex-NFL Player And Actor Alex Karras Has New Role: Brain Injury Victim

Posted on April 14th, 2012 · Posted in Brain Injury

After getting out of pro football, Alex Karras enjoyed a pretty good run as an actor. He played the character Mongo in Mel Brook’s hilarious spoof of Westerns, “Blazing Saddles.” And Karras played a dad in a 1980s sitcom, “Webster.” In a column Saturday, Associated Press writer Tim Dahlberg wrote..
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