A Single Season of Youth Football Is Enough to Change the Brain
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Emily Woodruff
| January 18th, 2019
How long does a person have to play contact sports like football for concerns like brain damage? For youngsters around the age of 12,…
How Does Traumatic Brain Injury Affect Dementia Risk?
By
Christine Barba
| September 17th, 2018
A concussion may cause headaches, fatigue and difficulty concentrating, but could a blow to your head also lead to more serious consequences decades later? According…
How Many Hits to the Head Before Dementia-Like Damage Occurs?
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Emily Woodruff
| August 1st, 2018
How many hits can a person take before a blow to the head translates to damage that mimics dementia? Just one, according to new…
One Traumatic Brain Injury Doubles the Risk of Dementia
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Emily Woodruff
| May 8th, 2018
Repeated blows to the head, like those potentially sustained in football or boxing, have long been shown to contribute to long-term neurological damage. But…
Brain Injuries Set the Stage for Earlier Dementia Development
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Emily Woodruff
| March 2nd, 2018
We know by now that traumatic brain injury, or T.B.I., is a threat to cognitive health. In a study of 111 N.F.L. players’ brains,…
Decades Later, Traumatic Brain Injury Still Heightens Chance of Dementia
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Emily Woodruff
| January 31st, 2018
Experiencing a traumatic brain injury can increase chances of dementia by up to 80 percent, even decades after the injury occurred, according to a…
Inflammation Could Be What Drives Alzheimer’s
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Being Patient
| December 22nd, 2017
December 22, 2017 Scientists still aren’t sure what causes Alzheimer’s disease, though there are many theories—beta-amyloid, an accumulation of a type of protein in…
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