Researchers Want Benoit's Brain
Researchers Want Look at Benoit's Brain
According to a June 30 ESPN.com article, researchers who look at brain trauma cases in deceased NFL players want to take a look at Chris Benoit's brain. They want to determine if brain trauma may have been played a role in Benoit's issues and condition.
From ESPN.com:
"We don't know, but we would like to find out," said Julian Bailes, chairman of neurosurgery at the University of West Virginia and medical director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. "We could be talking about the effects of head trauma, or the effects of head trauma in conjunction with substance abuse, or something else.
"We have seen repeated concussions associated with changes in the brain. These are abnormal changes in former football players who behaved in extreme and destructive ways. We need to ask if this is part of the same syndrome."
The researchers -- the same group who conducted postmortems on former NFL players Andre Waters and Justin Strzelczyk -- believe it is possible Benoit suffered the kind of concussion-related dementia that marked the other athletes' declines."
Read the full ESPN.com article here.
According to a June 30 ESPN.com article, researchers who look at brain trauma cases in deceased NFL players want to take a look at Chris Benoit's brain. They want to determine if brain trauma may have been played a role in Benoit's issues and condition.
From ESPN.com:
"We don't know, but we would like to find out," said Julian Bailes, chairman of neurosurgery at the University of West Virginia and medical director of the Center for the Study of Retired Athletes. "We could be talking about the effects of head trauma, or the effects of head trauma in conjunction with substance abuse, or something else.
"We have seen repeated concussions associated with changes in the brain. These are abnormal changes in former football players who behaved in extreme and destructive ways. We need to ask if this is part of the same syndrome."
The researchers -- the same group who conducted postmortems on former NFL players Andre Waters and Justin Strzelczyk -- believe it is possible Benoit suffered the kind of concussion-related dementia that marked the other athletes' declines."
Read the full ESPN.com article here.
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