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  • Experts warn about repeated brain blows in football

    July 8, 2010

    The brain of the late Cincinnati Bengals pass receiver Chris Henry contained so many signs of chronic disease — sludge, tangles and threads associated with late-in-life dementia or Alzheimer’s — that it shows a football player can sustain life-altering head trauma without ever being diagnosed with a concussion.
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    CTE Becoming Increasingly Common In Retirees

    July 7, 2010

    If the disturbing findings during the autopsy of former West Virginia and Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry tell us one thing, it’s that the prevention of brain injuries among athletes in contact sports still has a way to go.
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    Young player had brain damage more often seen in NFL veterans

    Doctors found evidence of brain damage, called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, that has been observed in retired players who’ve had many concussions. Unlike those older players, Henry was 26 when he died.
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    What Chris Henry’s brain is telling us

    This is rapidly shaping up as a public health crisis among a decent-sized segment of the population, and Henry is now its seminal figure. Here’s why: The Henry findings indicate the crisis extends not only to longtime NFL players but to an unimaginable amount of young men as well.
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    Howard: Sound The Alarm

    Nobody wants to hear what doctors discovered about the damage to the late Chris Henry’s brain, but we all need to listen and reconsider the danger in the game of football, Johnette Howard writes. Story

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    Researchers find brain trauma in Henry

    “We would have been very happy if the results had been negative, but multiple areas of Chris Henry’s brain showed CTE,” said Julian Bailes, director of BIRI and chairman of neurosurgery at West Virginia. Bailes and his colleagues presented results of their forensic examination at a news conference Monday afternoon.
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    Welcome to the Brain Injury Research Institute

    We are the Brain Injury Research Institute. Our purpose is to study the short and long-term impact of brain injury in general and specifically concussions, the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and the psychosocial effects of CTE upon individuals’ lives.

    Research indicates a clear link between brain injuries and various debilitating neurological disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

    Our work aims to educate medical participants, public policy experts and the public on the profound consequences and dangers of concussions – whether in athletics, the military, or other professions.

    We also hope to establish protocol for the treatment of concussions and eventually help develop therapeutic interventions that can inhibit the progression of the disease and/or cure it.

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    Dr. Julian Bailes, Chair of the West Virginia University School of Medicine Department of Neurosurgery, appears on CNNs American Morning on December 3, 2009 to discuss the NFLs adoption of a new rule that governs a players return to action after suffering a head injury or a concussion.

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