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...frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease caused by the rapid deterioration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain, which Mackey injured on a goal post in his football days...
...Each year in the United States, about 300,000 athletes experience sports-related traumatic brain injuries. In the NFL, approximately 100 players suffer concussions resulting from collisions averaging 98 times the force of gravity...
...facing a growing number of football veterans with deteriorating health, the NFL is beginning an extensive study of the connection between sports-related concussions and chronic brain dysfunction. Plans to address the often devastating side-effects of a professional football career are already in the works. Yet as the NFL devotes funds to researching and treating brain disorders after the fact, the question remains whether the league is willing to make sacrifices to take the safety of its players seriously from the fore. As attention to the relationship between athletics and brain injury is on the rise...
...After former Philadelphia Eagle Andre Waters, whose extreme brain damage has been attributed to repeated concussions, committed suicide this past November, the NFL promised to “begin studying retired players later this year.” Embarking on a study that may cost as much as $3 million over several years, co-chairman of the NFL’s Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI) Committee, Dr. Ira Casson, said the study aimed to determine “whether or not a career in the NFL results in any kind of chronic brain injury...
...Brookhaven National Laboratory has made scientific breakthroughs indicating that traditional treatment for drug addiction may not be the only way—or even the best way—to reduce drug abusers’ cravings. Her findings reveal the role in addiction played by the section of the brain responsible for self control, as well as the part associated with pleasure. Volkow said her team had proved this with a number of experiments, including one in which rats were administered cocaine upon an auditory cue. When the experiment was repeated with the cues but without the drugs, the rats?...