A jarred brain needs sufficient time to rest and recover. It's simple, but makes all the difference in the long term.
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First and foremost, we have an awareness of concussion.
We think concussion itself is important.
And so just recognizing that concussion or a significant brain injury
doesn't have to be a big injury--that it
doesn't have to rise to the level of loss of consciousness
or transient memory loss, it can just
be having your bell rung, feeling a little dizzy,
not thinking quite straight, seeing stars,
it can be a lot of very mild symptoms.
That individual needs to be pulled out of the game
and evaluated and not allowed to go back into
the game until they've been completely cleared by a medical professional
and certainly not that day.
And I think that if we can manage
this, what we call, mild brain trauma,
allow the brain to rest, allow it
to repair itself, I think we'll find that we see
a lot less of this disease.
I think it's when we have a brain that's been
jarred, it's going through this period of
instability, and then it gets jarred again.
I think that repetitive jarring may trigger a pathologic cascade.
So the management of concussion and mild injury is going to be very important.
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Ann McKee, MD is the chief neuropathologist for the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) and the Boston University-based Centenarian Study, where ongoing surveillance of the FHS and centenarian participants will determine the incidence and type of dementia in persons in the ninth through the eleventh decades of life. She is also the chief neuropathologist for the Boston-based Veterans Administration Medical Centers and for the Sports Legacy Institute.
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