Monday, May 9, 2011

NY Times (13)

The Next Step for Researchers Is Not Finding Brain Trauma

There have been a few suicides from past NFL players.  They're saying this could be something that is actually caused by playing football and receiving brain trauma from that.

“It makes you worry as a player — I would imagine all of us have it,” said Chidi Ahanotu, 40, who played defensive lineman mostly for Tampa Bay from 1993 to 2004. “To what degree, I don’t know. But I don’t know how you can’t think that.”


Families of retired players that passed away have been donating their brains to be studied.  This is how they are tying together the unique factor that all of the brains do have trauma in them. 

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