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garrett — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:34:40 +0000

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Dr. Julian Bailes Featured on tonights Larry King Live

garrett — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:34:28 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered why we stay inunhealthy relationships, overeat or

become addicted to bad things - then

Friday’s show is for you! The secrets of the

brain revealed.

Submit your questions here!

Secrets of Your Mind: Why We Do What We Do

garrett — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:17:15 +0000

This week on Secrets of Your Mind: Why We Do What We Do

Terry Moran embeds with neurosurgeon Dr. Julian Bailes for a first-hand look at life-and-death drama inside the operating room of the West Virginia University Health Sciences Center.

Bailes gives life back to a woman admitted to the hospital comatose with massive brain hemorrhaging. To control another woman’s seizures, Bailes removes precious parts of her brain that could hold all of her life’s memories. Will she recognize her own daughter when she comes out of surgery?

It’s a race against time as cameras capture an aneurysm bursting on the operating table and Dr. Bailes and his team have only seconds to react.

Be sure to watch this Thursday on ABC (10/9pm CT)!

Dr. Bailes race against time

Experts warn about repeated brain blows in football

garrett — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:05:14 +0000

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.

Click to read more. courtesy of post-gazette.com

CTE Becoming Increasingly Common In Retirees

garrett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:15:27 +0000

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.

Click to read full story courtesy of the Wheeling News Register.

Young player had brain damage more often seen in NFL veterans

garrett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:10:19 +0000

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.

Click to read full story courtesy of CNN.com

What Chris Henry’s brain is telling us

garrett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 19:00:28 +0000

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.

Click to read Full story courtesy of ESPN.com

Howard: Sound The Alarm

garrett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:57:45 +0000

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

Researchers find brain trauma in Henry

garrett — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:56:19 +0000

“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.

Click to Read Full Article Courtesy of ESPN.com

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, Suicides and Parasuicides in Professional American Athletes

garrett — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:01:36 +0000

Abstract: We present 5 cases of professional American contact sport athletes who committed parasuicides and suicides aged 50, 45, 44, 36, and 40 years old. Full forensic autopsies and immunohistochemical analyses of the brains revealed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The brains appeared grossly normal at autopsy without gross evidence of remote traumatic injuries or neurodegenerative disease. Brain immunohistochemical analyses revealed widespread cerebral taupathy in the form of neurofibrillary tangles and neuritic threads without neuritic amyloid plaques. CTE refers to chronic cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms of chronic neurodegeneration following a single episode of severe traumatic brain injury or repeated episodes of mild traumatic brain injury.