Sentences with phrase «on brain autopsies»

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When the New York Times printed Einstein's obituary on April 20th, it said that Dr. Harvey performed the autopsy «with the permission of the scientist's son,» with another headline that same day proclaiming «Son Asked Study of Einstein Brain.»

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

His autopsy suggests one troubling explanation: Charles Whitman had a brain tumor pressing on his amygdala, a region of the brain crucial for emotion and behavioral control.

Studies on autopsied brains can look at structure but not activity.

This news comes from McGill University and the Suicide Brain Bank, a Quebec - based organization that carried out autopsies on suicide victims who had been abused as kids.

Further research based on autopsy specimens and animal experiments will be needed to clarify the relationship and determine if the patients with MRI hyperintensity in their brains have symptoms.

Autopsies on humans reveal a similar trend: brains from older people have a higher content of oxidised proteins than those from younger people.

The U.T. Southwestern team, in an effort to get a clearer parallel between the animal and human condition, conducted autopsies on the brains of depressed and normal individuals.

This brain slice from a human autopsy has taken on vivid color in the hands of a neuroscientist: green from infection by a lentivirus, red for neurons, blue for the nuclei of brain cells.

Extracting DNA from a museum collection of jellied autopsied brains dating back to the 1890s may give researchers a new take on the study mental disorders

We will perform PET / DBSI on 8 whole brain autopsy samples (2 males with AD, 2 females with AD, 2 males with normal aging, and 2 females with normal aging).

Dr. White and his colleagues performed brain autopsies — the only surefire way of diagnosing Alzheimer's — on more than 400 elderly Japanese - American men.

Jason Luckasevic, the lawyer, had an older brother in the midst of a medical residency who was working under a Nigerian forensic pathologist who happened to perform autopsies on ex-pro football players and found a startling amount of goo - for - brains within, and when he reported his findings in public, was smeared and attacked by the NFL.

As an Administrative Assistant you will have the ability to participate in our ** world renowned ** Brain and Body Donation Program by assisting our Pathology Team and the On - Call Rapid Autopsy Program