Sentences with phrase «repeat brain trauma»

«Disease caused by repeat brain trauma in athletes may affect memory, mood, behavior.»

Stern also added that these findings suggest that the diagnosis of dementia in older individuals with a history of repeat brain trauma may be difficult because many of the symptoms of CTE are similar to other diseases such as Alzheimer's.

According to the Washington Times, researchers at Boston University told Matson's family that he had the worst case of CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated brain trauma — they had ever seen.

Tau is a hallmark of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease that causes the gradual appearance of mental and emotional problems in people who have experienced repeated brain trauma.

A person's genetics also likely plays a role, because not everyone with a history of repeated brain trauma develops the disease, the CTE Center says.

The movie, of course, does not want to come right out and say that the NFL was behind any of this, although the suggestion is that the organization was aware of the potential problem of repeated brain traumas and did nothing about it.

It's willing to call out dangerous ignorance about or intentional concealment of the apparently widespread problem of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is exclusive to athletes whose participation in certain sports results in repeated brain trauma.

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This is basically as bad as it gets for the Detroit Lions, especially with all of the lawsuits going around and all of the players that have brain damage because of repeated head trauma.

A number of top concussion researchers also believe that real - time monitoring of impacts could help reduce the total amount of brain trauma from repeated subconcussive blows by identifying athletes sustaining a large number of such hits due to improper blocking or tackling technique.

Nowinski, who suffered multiple concussions on the football field and in the wrestling ring, now dedicates his work to concussion research and education, both at the Sports Legacy Institute, where he is president, and at Boston University, where he is co-director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease brought on by repeated trauma.

Concussions result from the brain slamming against the skull, usually causing short - term issues that some research suggests may evolve into long - term problems such as memory loss and depression when the brain is subjected to repeated trauma.

Published in the March 2016 issue of American Journal of Pathology, this Georgetown study, the first of its kind, modeled repeated mild head trauma to investigate brain damage that occurs after such an injury.

The increase in findings of CTE is widely believed to be a result of increased awareness about the dangers of repeated head trauma to the human brain.

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Did you know that trauma, domestic abuse, and high conflict not only affect a person's emotional well - being; repeated exposure to these elements may also physically change a person's brain.

Recent suicides of football players have triggered multiple investigations into brain injuries and the array of consequences that players face as a result of repeated head trauma.

[00:03:53] Well so there's a couple of things to kind of unpack in there so you are exactly right that we know that children who have been exposed to repeated complex trauma we do see changes in their ongoing brain development and brain chemistry and I am no neuroscientist however we know that for example the simple way to think about it is that those are kids who may have changes as you said in their stress response their reactivity so they may be kids who you know sort of fight or flight in sort of a simplistic way is changed so that they may react in an overexaggerated way or they may also have sort of an inappropriately low response to danger.

Repeated exposure to volatile emotions, violent behavior, or emotional abandonment will build circuits into our brains that help us survive the trauma.

As Perry and his colleagues (Perry, 1999; Perry, Pollard, Blakely, Baker, & Vigilante, 1995) have argued, repeated activation of specific trauma - related states, or, in our terms, EPs, leads to neurobiological «hard - wiring» of the brain.

Instead, body parts and the primitive brain stem get «stuck» repeating bodily feelings from the past trauma events.