Posts Tagged ‘ABC News’
By Paul Stone On December 4th, 2013
The NFL isn’t getting the respite from their concussion problems they hoped for after their landmark $765 million settlement with former players over how the league handled brain injuries. Multiple high profile documentary and journalistic efforts have brought the issue to public attention and the outcry has grown over the high rates of brain injuries…
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By Paul Stone On December 2nd, 2013
Usually the stories we hear about traumatic brain injury come in two flavors. Often the tales are those of tragedy and loss as a family copes with the premature death of a child or parent. Sometimes we are luckier and those stories show us how a person overcame their brain injury and all doubts to…
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By Paul Stone On May 10th, 2013
Marianna Consiglio was just 12 when a lacrosse ball flung into her head left Marianna with a severe concussion which took over a year and a half to recover from. Three years after that, she was still left with debilitating headaches, which no treatment seemed to help. Four years after her brain injury, Marianna’s mother…
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By Paul Stone On January 16th, 2013
Last year, former NFL veteran linebacker Junior Seau committed suicide. Just recently, his brain was examined and found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a condition brought on by repeated damage to the brain. Seau is far from the first football player to be diagnosed with CTE after committing suicide. Unfortunately, it was pretty much a foregone…
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By Paul Stone On October 19th, 2012
We still know remarkably little about how the brain works. It is one of the most complex systems in the world, endlessly flexible and amazingly self-healing, but after decades of study, much of the brain is still a mystery. Saturday, October 6, the speakers at the “Gray Matters” 2012 Roundtable at Stanford gave a sense…
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