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Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski
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- čas přidán 10. 04. 2018
- Something strange and deadly is happening inside the brains of top athletes -- a degenerative condition, possibly linked to concussions, that causes dementia, psychosis and far-too-early death. It's called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, and it's the medical mystery that Chris Nowinski wants to solve by analyzing brains after death. It's also why, when Nowinski meets a pro athlete, his first question is: "Can I have your brain?" Hear more from this ground-breaking effort to protect athletes' brains -- and yours, too.
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It's crazy how 16 years before this TED Talk, this man got taken for his Last Ride by The Undertaker.
People like this do well for the world. What an inspiration.
Until you find out WWE paid him to stop looking into Chris Benoit’s case
Big massive respect to Chris especially me being an old school wrestling fan
I applaud him for his work and research.
Many years ago ( late 1990’s) sports illustrated published an article about the impact energy of contact football. What they found were high school players were getting many near max level impacts but few that crossed into the Max levels. They also conducted cognitive reasoning test pre and post season. They found that the reasoning levels were diminished enough to say ‘hmmmm?!’ The researchers conducted cognitive testing again the next season and discovered that the levels even though they harms recovered, many of the players were off just enough from the previous season to cause the researchers to say ‘hmmm. We may be into something here…’
I was a volunteer HS football coach back in the 1980-1990’s. My regular job was firefighter EMT I was the team doc. When players got their ‘bell rung’ or were seeing stars , the had to answer basic questions
1. What’s your name ?
2. What’s your moms name?
3. What street do you live on?
4. When’s your birthday?
If they couldn’t answer these in a quick amount of time I simply took their helmet from the and carried it for the rest of the practice or game.
This was way before concussion protocol was even thought of.
This article came out after I stopped coaching.
Years later I have 5 sons. Who I never encouraged to play tackle football 🏈.
Knees we can fix or replace. But 🧠 brains???
Thank you for sharing your personal experience and perspective on this issue. It's encouraging to hear that you were proactive in taking steps to protect your players from potential head injuries before concussion protocols were widely implemented. The research you mentioned from Sports Illustrated highlights the long-standing concerns about the impact of contact sports on cognitive function and highlights the fact we have known for some time there are consequences of repeated head trauma both short and long term.
Your decision not to encourage your sons to play tackle football reflects a growing sentiment amongst parents. The research coming out these past few years has been jaw dropping and many parents are rethinking the risks associated with contact sports. There is a great need for more comprehensive approaches to protect athletes in contact sports. As a society, we need to continue to educate ourselves and others about the risks of head injuries and work to develop effective strategies to minimize those risks. Thank you for your thoughtful contribution to this important conversation.
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The funny part is boy#2 bumped heads hard enough during a basketball practice the he broke a tooth…!
i don’t think people understand how many athletes this affects…. i started playing tackle football at 6 years old…. today, i’m 24 years old & i now struggle with simple day to day tasks.. after seeing a neurologist, i had gotten a score of 17 out of 100 on a cognitive basis test….. & that only 2 years after i stopped playing football…. the scary part is knowing that this will only get worse the older i get.
Now this is the stuff I wanna see on TED!
iczeky Yes! Back to the science! Leave The social justice stuff to Tedx
What a superb man. To go from wrestling to creating this foundation. We need more people like Chris in the world.
I am 25 and have been experiencing depression, agression, memory loss, panic attacks, insomnia and other symptoms. This started when i was 22, ive been on anti depressants, anti anxiety meds, and sleeping pills. Ive been getting worse really fast recently. Ive had ect (electro shock therapy) but that didnt last long i felt better or normal for maybe a month than my symptoms started to come back.
Shut up and take my brain!
Thank you for everything you do, Chris!
I believe that cte is very possibly the cause for my severe depression and complete 180° from whom I used to be. It literally happened overnight. I was funny and outgoing and woke up the next day and was hit with crippling depression, almost daily headaches and the other symptoms described.
Did you experience any notable head trauma, concussions, prior to your shift in mood and symptoms? (even years prior)
Same here. Wish I never played sports
How are you going now?
Awesome talk, awesome guy.
Wasn't movie "Concussion" about this very issue and is starred Will Smith as the Nigerian Dr. who challenged the NFL about effects and dangers of concussions.
Gabriel Camarena , yes, it is. I literally have the DVD in my player. It's not the best movie so far, though
Yes
Why is this top comment
Science is awesome and so are you.
Nice work, Chris
this gets me a bit worried as even when young I used to fight with my older brother usually resulting in me getting a beating on my head as well as almost getting a concussion in boxing. I have two failed Suicide attempts and at the age of 24 my memory, concentration and most brain processes are weak. I also have quite severe anxiety and depression, but my doctor said it's unlikely I started developing the disease, but sometimes I fear for the worst...
Clark Ajuga have you ever thought to get a F-PET Scan? It may reveal some of amigdal and prefrontal activity and a neurologist could search for the prognosis of the lession. Sorry the bad English
LUCTIANITO no I haven't, though I will look into it now that you mentioned it, thanks
Ask your doctor about an fMRI study or just an MRI. :)
What's the current status now
I signed up. Not sports but multiple head traumas.
Just watched him in tough enough and what a snob he was. I’m glad he became a great man and didn’t even know he was leading the science behind cte .. Good for him
Amazing work Chris
I'll donate my brain, but this cause would be a waste since I've never had a concussion. But I have bi-polar and would donate to help that. Can you donate your brain to more than one place? I'll be dead but my ego will be happy that my brain is being studied by scientists around the world. My goal in life is to have my brain in a jar next to Einsteins.
Erik Bakker There are in and out-patient studies that pay money for bi-polar. As far as CTE can only be studied after death
Thank you Chris!
Tell the truth...tell the truth
I want to donate.
Awesome, what a dude
I wish CTE wasn’t a thing.
i played in the uk. i was on kickoff and made it to the second line just before the wedge and took on a clean block, shoulder to shoulder.
my elbow got driven into my solar plexus and i got winded - couldn't breathe, couldn't move for a little while (not the first time this happened albeit in another sport, so i kinda knew i just had to ride it out and not panic); but a player on their sideline was boasting that i'd just been concussed.
my main focus was breathing so i couldn't/didn't respond but i remember thinking you motherf*.
long story made longer, i wonder what he'd say after watching this.
Yes
People watch NFL for the big hits. The players are the modern day gladiators -- live by the game, die by the game.
Easy enough to say when you're not one of the athletes
Lucky me
@Cait L. I tell the truth
Researchers are salivating to look at OJ Simpson brain.
I watched the movie Concussion just the other day lol
I think the reason they haven't come close to a solution is because there isn't one. Whats damaged is damaged and either the brain heals by itself or it doesn't.
The solution may be as simple as wearing better protective gear for sports for example.
Having dead brains is fine and all for detecting it after people die, but to figure out something to help repair the brain you need to test on real people, or do some horrific animal testing.
This - the only possible "solution" I could see for tissue that isn't healing would be some kind of far-future tech that would combine periodic brain scans with brain tissue replication technology, and we have nowhere NEAR the understanding of the minutia of how the brain works for something like that. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure - people hitting other people hard enough to make the brain move around is not good, and the best way to prevent this is to not have athletes participate in high impact sports.
I am legit worried now. I realize it's caused by repeated long-term exposure to head trauma, such as tackle football, but pretty sure repeated car crashes from age 8 onward would have the same effect, considering every one of them has resulted in me cracking my head on either a window, a door, or a dashboard. And then there's the fact that, over the course of my four years in high school, I suffered no shortage of head injuries, be they basketballs to the face, hitting my head on stuff (hard) by accident, or even getting punched in the head several times, not to mention the car accident I was a part of in January of last year, where I was actually knocked unconscious due to head trauma (the airbag knocked my air into my head with the force of a gunshot, knocking me out and breaking it in two places). So yeah, I'm very much at risk for CTE.
I'm in my early 20s, by the way, and the youngest documented age of it showing up is 17.
Hey man 3 years late but did you ever speak to a doctor? I have been knocked unconscious (1 time with prolonged symptoms) a few times plus several other concussions and multiple head impacts. I only just found about CTE do going to speak to my doc. Hope your doing alright.
@@matt014908 how you doing man? I’ve had 4 concussions where I was in the hospital along with lots of tackle football. This led to 4 years of extreme drug use with 2 overdoses and a couple suicide attempts. I’m doing better now. But can still be impulsive and have ringing in my ears
When I was younger, mine and my sister's heads were banged together very hard. It was quite a normal thing back then: "BE QUIET OR I'll BANG YOUR HEADS TOGETHER!" The 90s wasn't a very enlightened decade.
Jim Griffiths , :(
Reminds me of reading old books where kids were "boxed on the ears"
Uh no, that has nothing to do with it being "the 90's" and everything to do with you having an abusive parent(s) - that's not normal regardless of the decade. I grew up in the 90's and my parents never did anything like that to me or my siblings.
@@CalLadyQED there's a big difference between pulling on an ear and slamming heads together, though I disagree with both.
@@yellowblanka6058, boxing someone's ears is pulling them? I always thought it meant hitting them in the head! Why would they say "box" if it is nothing like boxing? Southern dialects are so weird
@@CalLadyQED You're right, I was mixed up.
I know I have cte I was a fighter and had a horrible motorcycle crash. I want to donate my brain
After I die . You can have my brain . I’m pretty sure I have CTE
Hey guys
Andy Richter’s little brother :) Good talk.
You can have my brain
The best available evidence tells us that CTE is caused by repetitive hits to the head sustained over a period of years. This doesn’t mean a handful of concussions; most people diagnosed with CTE suffered hundreds or thousands of head impacts over the course of many years playing contact sports or serving in the military.
I have anxiety....do you still want my brain?
We are naturally concious about being hut in da head we get visibly upset at slight force in da head bt some people bog down this natural response and make hitting in da head a normal thing
Wow
Never felt so bad about mildly hitting my little sister on the head after she purposely annoys me.
Good
Don't get me wrong, you probably shouldn't do that, but CTE is from repetitive full-on hits to the had, hard punches etc. - a light smack to the head isn't going to cause the brain to move around in your skull.
@@yellowblanka6058 for real. It requires thousands of blows to the head over a period of many years to develop CTE.
Evn helped look at chris benoits brain
this guy was in wwe
Anyone else think of the recent For The People episode?
Thumbnail, he had to do it them
Whoa, im early!!
This is how the apocalypse started XD
Bennet Omalu
Bubba at it again
First
second
you need a living person to try and fix it what are you doinggggggggggg
Or you can just watch “Concussion”.
So the conclusion is - it is really bad for you to get hit in the head a lot - wow, what a revelation!
Yes, a no-brainer, except this program is extremely important because we now have empirical, objective, scientific evidence that is conclusive, which proves CTE exists. That's a key step in getting people to *stop* letting kids get repeated concussions.
@@metanumia Kids OR adults - it's not good for anybody. The solution is stricter regulations on blows to the head/mythical future safety equipment that doesn't exist or simply not promoting violent sports where blows to the head are commonplace as much. I know people love sports, but it's not good to have all these potentially aggressive/anxious/depressed athletes out there (for them or society at large).
666 xD yay 665 before me, nawt tht bad
Second haha
Is he talking about joe Biden ?
From your name, maybe not be so judgmental?
Yes