leveland, Camille and Larry Ruvo Chair of the Neurological Institute of Cleveland Clinic, and professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University; Eric Reiman, MD, executive director of the Banner Alzheimers Institute, Phoenix; and Martha Shenton,
Date: Dec 22, 2015
Category: Health
Source: Google
NFL football players susceptible to brain damage later, study finds
BUSM is working with psychiatric researchers Martha Shenton and Inga Koerte at Brigham and Womens Hospital are using advanced neuroimaging techniques to examine whether there is a relationship between playing football and differences in brain structure later in life, Stamm said.
13; "We don't know what the long-term effects are. I think we're still at a stage where it's too early to tell," said Martha Shenton, director of the psychiatry neuroimaging laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital and co-principal author with Echlin on the studies.
Study senior author Martha Shenton, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, noted that the researchers don't know what caused the changes in the white matter of the soccer players, only that there were changes. "It could be from heading the ball, or due to impact of hitting other player