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DO REPEATED CONCUSSIONS AGE THE BRAIN FASTER?

08.09.12

A University of Michigan research report hypothesizes that concussive and subconcussive head impacts set about a cascade of pathological events that accelerates declines in cognitive function typically associated with the aging process.

DID EASTERLING’S CONCUSSIONS LEAD TO HIS SUICIDE?

08.09.12

An autopsy report released this week, just before N.F.L. training camps opened, concluded that the former Atlanta Falcons safety Ray Easterling, who committed suicide in April, had a degenerative brain disease widely connected to athletes who have absorbed frequent blows to the heads of depression and insomnia.