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NFL to ask its players to donate brains for study
Breitbart (AP) ^ | December 20, 2009 | Howard Fendrich

Posted on 12/20/2009 10:23:48 AM PST by Cheap_Hessian

The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions, The Associated Press learned Sunday.

The league now plans to encourage current and former NFL players to agree to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, which has said it found links between repeated head trauma and brain damage in boxers, football players and, most recently, a former NHL player.

"It's huge that the NFL actively gets behind this research," said Robert Cantu, a doctor who is a co-director of the BU center and has spoken negatively about the league in the past. "It forwards the research. It allows players to realize the NFL is concerned about the possibility that they could have this problem, and that the NFL is doing everything it can to find out about the risks and the preventive strategies that can be implemented."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Sports
KEYWORDS: athletes; brain; nfl
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Slightly used.


21 posted on 12/20/2009 11:26:20 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Who’s donating the microscope?


22 posted on 12/20/2009 11:34:57 AM PST by Fast Moving Angel (GOP: Stop listening, start doing -- we need new leaders!)
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To: campaignPete R-CT
BU to ask its researchers to donate brains for study

BU Medical School is an outstanding institution.It is,in fact,one this country's elite schools in spite of the fact that they don't get as much press as Harvard and others.Repeated head injuries...even relatively mild ones...have been shown to be cumulative in nature.Kinda like exposure to radiation.

I'd wager that if Cassius Clay's brain (I refuse to call that filthy punk coward "mohammed ali") was subjected to skilled analysis by skilled physicians you'd see a pile of goo come out of his cranium...thanks to all the blows to the head he's suffered.

23 posted on 12/20/2009 1:50:35 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: dfwgator

Are you telling me I put an abnormal brain into a seven and a half foot long,54 inch wide...

GORILLA?!?!


24 posted on 12/20/2009 1:59:29 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Host The Beer Summit-->Win The Nobel Peace Prize!)
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To: decimon
Now or later?

Doesn't matter. It's not as if they're actually using them now.
25 posted on 12/20/2009 3:41:31 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Tiger isn't out of the woods yet--not by a long shot.)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Perhaps they are looking for a breaktrough to find the perfect vacuum.


26 posted on 12/20/2009 3:43:16 PM PST by Moltke (DOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the Big House - HOPE will get you 4 to 8 in the White House.)
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To: Cheap_Hessian

Since most of them voted for Obama...yeah they should....HOPE YOU LIKE YOUR CHANGE NFL THUGS. He is coming for your money. Lets see....35 to 40% tax rate....5.4% surcharge for “Health Reform”...cant buy as many hos and bitches any more. WORD!!!!!!!!!!!!


27 posted on 12/21/2009 5:23:36 AM PST by GUNGAGALUNGA (Democratus Suckus Teatus is the Latin root for Democrat and it means to tax)
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To: Cheap_Hessian; Perdogg

too... many... jokes...


28 posted on 12/21/2009 8:25:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (My Sunday Feeling is that Nothing is easy. Goes for the rest of the week too.)
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