tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post3614949949362892686..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: Brains, Behavior and FootballUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-83113418902699094542010-09-20T01:39:25.722-04:002010-09-20T01:39:25.722-04:00I salute owen's parents for allowing his brain...I salute owen's parents for allowing his brain to be a part of a research in order to increase our knowledge about chronic traumatic encephalopathy.<br /><br />Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of the condition, dementia pugilistica, is primarily associated with boxing. CTE has been most commonly found in professional athletes participating in gridiron football, ice hockey, professional wrestling and other contact sports who have experienced head trauma, resulting in characteristic degeneration of brain tissue and the accumulation of tau protein. Individuals with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy may show such symptoms of dementia such as memory loss, aggression, confusion and depression which may appear within months of the trauma or many decades later.<br /><br /><br />I got this valuable info by reading articles at http://psychiatristcleveland.org/<br /><br />You can try this one. Hope that athletes will be safe always.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16399723100965026681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-89368388984560371452010-09-19T12:50:47.375-04:002010-09-19T12:50:47.375-04:00Just so very sad. His parents are very brave and ...Just so very sad. His parents are very brave and giving.tracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00121763456161256252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-74104867218385932902010-09-19T01:05:50.548-04:002010-09-19T01:05:50.548-04:00I don't transmit my unhappiness because I have...I don't transmit my unhappiness because I have a very non-expressive face when I feel sad or angry or any negative emotion. I tend to either smile or be expressionless, so it's not other people's fault they can't read me. My psychiatrist has noticed I flush slightly when feeling really bad. I do tell him what is going on, though, so I am not leaving him to guess.Sunny CAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11451116932556227816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-80558991068572065402010-09-18T14:59:56.348-04:002010-09-18T14:59:56.348-04:00Interesting post. When you wrote: "Sometime ...Interesting post. When you wrote: "Sometime people commit suicide...there was no depression, no obvious precipitant, no note left behind, and every one is left to wonder why". It reminded me of how others cannot sometimes see how depressed I am.<br /><br />When I left home after high school I would call my Mom regularily and many many times I would be sobbing, yet we met with my pdoc she said she had no idea I had been depressed.<br /><br />I know my Mom loved me, and I loved her, but had I committed suicide I think she would have felt that shock of "...why, but there was nothing wrong?"<br /><br />It has been my experience that those close to me either cannot see how I struggle, or don't want to see. It leaves me feeling extremely isolated and uncared for.Aquahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16230285017033299419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-33210695449037092602010-09-18T13:14:56.785-04:002010-09-18T13:14:56.785-04:00"if you are an athlete, donate your brain...&..."if you are an athlete, donate your brain..." Hopefully you mean after death. I'm hoping my son hangs on to his long enough to graduate and get a decent job. I would very upset if he donated it in an impulsive, albeit altruistic gesture and then I was left to support him for the rest of his althletic 'career".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com