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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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