Brain Scan Technique to Distinguish Between Brain Injuries & PTSD

Very much on point for football related injuries...

Brain Scans to Distinguish Between Brain Injury and PTSD

"Draper has a second project using the technique to study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the progressive degenerative brain disease affecting football players and other athletes who experience repetitive brain trauma."

If this becomes validated and has a low false positive rate, I could see players being scanned routinely or after major collisions as a matter of course. Careers will be shortened, but post football quality of life improved.

PatsWickedPissah said:

Very much on point for football related injuries...

Brain Scans to Distinguish Between Brain Injury and PTSD

"Draper has a second project using the technique to study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the progressive degenerative brain disease affecting football players and other athletes who experience repetitive brain trauma."

If this becomes validated and has a low false positive rate, I could see players being scanned routinely or after major collisions as a matter of course. Careers will be shortened, but post football quality of life improved.

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That's pretty encouraging stuff, but a sample size of 75 is tiny.

The NFL has announced that they were provide $10m in funding for this program.

As long as they can use their own doctors to conduct the research.

Real good Ron Borges article on NFL players and their 96% rate of CTE for anyone interested.
Too bad Ron has bouts of trolling because he is a great writer when he wants to be.

Borges: Roger Goodell, NFL fumble again on concussion issue

IcyPatriot said:

Real good Ron Borges article on NFL players and their 96% rate of CTE for anyone interested.
Too bad Ron has bouts of trolling because he is a great writer when he wants to be.

Borges: Roger Goodell, NFL fumble again on concussion issue

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Normally I won't read him but knowing how such a close friend he was to Kevin Turner, you know Borges is putting x-tra effort into the column.

Plus hes bashing Goody and I'll always read those

IcyPatriot said:

Real good Ron Borges article on NFL players and their 96% rate of CTE for anyone interested.
Too bad Ron has bouts of trolling because he is a great writer when he wants to be.

Borges: Roger Goodell, NFL fumble again on concussion issue

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F*ck Ron Borges

I for one would prefer not to, but have at it!

The NFL is not only dealing with the reality of CTE, it is also now dealing with a lack of trust because of the way they handled it.

They should poll parents to see how much of an impact their lack of trust in the NFL has in their decision of whether their kids play football or not.

I just took my kid to his flag football camp yesterday (he caught 2 TD's btw ) and there were about a hundred or so kids. When I was a kid we all played football in pads. So in one generation we have seen an impact of parental concerns based on the dangers of football alone. I suspect that the added revelations of CTE and the Tobacco style deception the NFL has chosen to cover it up with will have a dramatic impact on what sport my grandchildren (not yet born) will play.

Although a slight derailment, this may be interesting to some of you. A group of scientists have developed a "new" standard model of the brain that is a lot more granular than the old. Although a lot of the properties of the "new" parts of the brain have been known for quite some time, this is the first, dramatic remapping of the brain model in a very long time.

Updated brain map identifies 97 new areas - CNN.com