UCLA researchers say they have found a protein that’s a marker for brain disease in live football players, a protein that previously could only be detected during an autopsy. UCLA in Los Angeles issued a press release about its findings, and the story had wide coverage in the media. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-researchers-first-to-image-242445.aspx?link_page_rss=242445..
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Neuroscience “is a priority” at Stanford University, the school’s president said Saturday during a panel on “Gray Matters.” http://news.stanford.edu/news/2012/october/roundtable-gray-matters-100612.html The roundtable on brain research, and how it can be applied in everyone’s life, was moderated by ABC News’ Juju Chang, a Stanford alumni. The panel included Stanford President John Hennessy;..
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Hindsight is 20-20, as the saying goes. Just ask former Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon. McMahon, who has the early stages of dementia, told a Chicago TV station this week that if he could live his life over again, he would have played baseball, not football. USA Today was among..
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Now here are two attorneys who can really relate to their clients. Two former pro-football-players turned lawyers are now representing roughly 1,000 ex-players in what could be landmark worker’s compensation cases in California, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/sports/football/08lawyers.html?hpw Ron Mix in the 1960s was with the San Diego..
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Whether NFL Concussions Cause Alzheimer’s May Be Decided in California A case in California is shaping up as a test of whether the National Football League is liable for the dementia that is striking retired players who sustained head injuries during their careers. The details of the case are carefully..
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Date: 11/14/2008 By SHIRLEY S. WANGThe Wall Street Journal Brian Kammerer, the 45-year-old chief financial officer of a small hedge fund, called his wife one day from a cellphone in the men’s room of his Manhattan office building. A colleague had just asked him for something, he whispered, but he..
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Date: 07/28/2008 04:33 PM By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) _ A milder type of mental decline that often precedes Alzheimer’s disease is alarmingly more common than has been believed, and in men more than women, doctors reported Monday. Nearly a million older Americans slide from normal memory into..
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