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A Different Sports Legacy: Head Traumas and Concussions
Broadcast starting week of April 9, 2008
This week on The Infinite Mind, “A Different Sports Legacy: Head Traumas and Concussions.”
What happens when you play rough with your brain?
We will hear from leading researchers about the links between concussions, memory loss and depression. And we hear first-hand experiences of what it's like to "get your bell rung" on the NFL playing field. Plus, the latest on preventing sports-related head trauma.
Joining host Dr. Fred Goodwin is Dr. Robert Cantu, Chief of Neurosurgery Service and Director of Sports Medicine, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, and author of 300 publications on concussions. We also speak with Dr. Julian Bailes, chair of the West Virginia University Department of Neuosurgery and Dr. Benett Omalu, of University of California at Davis, regarding landmark research into the brains of deceased NFL players, which reveal startling links between concussions, and mood and memory disorders.
We also speak with NFL Hall of Famer Warren Moon, who discusses his own experience, and whether a sports career is worth the risk of concussions; sports agent Lee Steinberg, who represents Moon, and Troy Aikman, and has been an outspoken critic of current safety standards, and we talk with Chris Nowinski, a former Harvard wrestler, turned World Wrestling Federation competitor ("Joe Harvard"), about his quest to warn other athletes about the potentially lethal dangers he’s experienced and uncovered in others. Plus, a doctor from the Centers for Disease Control on how parents can protect their children from concussions on the playing field.
For more information visit:
CDC "Preventing Concussions in Youth" (including fact sheets)
