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Athletes' Brains Reveal Concussion Damage
jamie found a story on research about what concussions do to athletes, with the insights coming mostly from the study of the donated brains of dead athletes. The NFL has the biggest profile in the piece, but other sports make an appearance too. Turns out that repeated concussions can result in depression, insomnia, and the beginnings of something that looks a lot like Alzheimer's. "The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone," said [retired wrestler] Nowinski. "We know we can't do that anymore. This causes long-term damage."
They just need to smoke more pot!
We have to stop that before someone is so gone that he shoots himself in the leg.
It's a conspiracy.
And they needed to study athletes for this? They could have asked anyone who's ever done more than a week of front-line tech support.
Briefly, the degree of mental impairment is roughly proportional to the depth of the worn-out concavity in the desk. The rates at which both measurements increase over time show a logarithmic flattening-out as one progresses from front-line support to management.
Whoever tagged this "nobrainer" deserves a cookie. :)
actually, I'm pretty sure the only people who believed it were people who had been whacked on the head hundreds of times.
In Soviet Russia jokes are formulaic and decidedly non-humorous.
The thing that is probably going to be lost on 99% of the people reading this article and thinking the "dumb jocks" deserve it is the affects of sitting in a chair for many hours staring at monitors and making the same repetative movements day after day.
Whale
+1 unintentional onomatopoeia
So very true. Other cancers of todays medicine are the "let it all out"-philosophy in gastroenterology and the "don't be so hard on yourself" school of urology.
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With all of that, what would you want with a functioning brain?
That has the insidious side effect of causing the patient to start speaking lolcat though.
Web2.0: I love when people Flickr my cuil and digg my boingboing until my google is reddit and I start to yahoo
yeah, me too, I never worry about... now why does it keep saying frag error link 238 of 4096.....
Obviously you're not my little brother.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Never bet on the guy named "Nowinski". He's never won anything.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone....We know we can't do that anymore."
Just curious in what medical journal was this ever listed outside of the No-Shit-Sherlock section?
Unreal what a Common Sense deficiency can do to a person.
"The idea that you can whack your head hundreds of times in your life and knock yourself out and get up and be fine is gone," said [retired wrestler] Nowinski.
This was a legitimate idea that people actually believed?
No. He just whacked his head a few hundred times, and finally came to the correct conclusion.
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It's a marital art.
Okay, okay! I admit I was wrong. Will you call off your friends from posting even more damning replies!?
Your brain is not a computer.