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Showing posts with label Brain Damage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brain Damage. Show all posts

Thursday, May 13, 2021

The Leader of the Free World is "Cognitively Delinquent"

By Richard Abelson May 12, 2021 307 Comments

“This bloke is without shame,” Jones said. “He hailed the Covid-19 vaccines distributed across the United States as a ‘dose of hope’. That hope, Mr. Biden, was launched on Trump’s watch. Trump ordered millions of vaccines before anyone thought of it.”

Jones quoted Australian defense minister Tony Abbott: “There has been the militarization of the South China Sea; the bullying of neighbors, even India; the trade boycotts against Australia; the abrogation of the “One Country, Two Systems” treaty on Hong Kong; the mass internment of the Uighurs; and, most dangerous for the wider world, the growing belligerence towards Taiwan — a liberal democracy of 25 million people that should not have to submit just because it was part of China more than 100 years and two world wars ago.”..........To Read More....

 

Friday, July 28, 2017

Brain Damage In 99% Of Cases: Is This The NFL's Worst Nightmare?

By Julianna LeMieux — July 26, 2017

Football is not the same game it was 10 years ago. Evidence over the last decade has been mounting that parts of the game are harmful to some of its players. Specifically, those who experience repeated concussions or head trauma, resulting in a type of irreversible and degenerative brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

A new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), entitled Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football brought this issue into the spotlight this week, largely because of its splashy results..........What the study suggests is that some football players will end up with brain damage. However, the percentage of how many is still up in the air - way up in the air. I don't want to deflate this important work (I'm not Tom Brady, after all), but, any further numbers or details are yet to be determined.

The main reason for this lies in where the brain tissue that was analyzed came from - which is a brain donation program. This means that the family of football players donated their bodies after death. It is not unreasonable to assume that there was a reason to do so, for example, that their loved one was experiencing depression, mood swings or other effects of brain trauma. So, the brain samples create data that are highly skewed in the direction of people who were experiencing some symptoms of CTE. The authors even state in their paper that "caution must be used in interpreting the high frequency of CTE in this sample, and estimates of prevalence cannot be concluded or implied from this sample."..........To Read More.....