A stunning damaging, or shattering effect from a hard blow, especially injury of the brain resulting in disturbance of cerebral function.
What is concussion?
100
They are investigating whether football causes CTE and how much the NFL knew about the dangers pf playing football.
What are reporters Steve Fainaru and Mark Fainaru-Wada investigating?
100
Hopeless and couldn't get words out mike went from being a kind and functional adult to mentally and physically disability.
How did Mike webster's personality & behavior change after he retired from 17 years of NFL football?
100
It started in 1970 and marked a turning point in football's popularity?
When did the broadcast of Monday night football started?
100
No, they did not.
Did the NFL do a good job choosing the doctor to lead the committee on concussion research?
200
A doctor who practices neuropathology which is the study of disease of nervous system tissue, usually in the form of either small surgical biopsies or whole autopsy brains.
What is neuropathologist?
200
His head
What was Webster's favorite weapon?
200
CTE
What did the NFL found that Mike webster's disabilities caused by?
200
They made it glamorous, part of the life and culture of the game. People loved the violence and the NFL created TV.
How did NFL market the violence of the game?
200
B/c they did not choose doctors who had experience with brains, but instead chose NFL team doctors.
How do you know?
300
!,000 & 1,500
How often are players hitting each other's heads a year/
300
A doctor who practices medicine with patients.
What is Clinician?
300
The dark side to the big hits was the brain.
What was the dark side to the big hits?
300
They found that there was no evidence that football was dangerous in the long term.
what did the NFL committee find?
400
Mike webster was the greatest NFL player of all times.
Who is Mike webster?
400
Bell ringers
What is another word for concussions?
400
A protein found in the brain tissue that plays a role in stabilizing microtubules, but in excess can cause degeneration of the brain.
What is tau protein?
400
He lost his short-term memory, when he went to the hospital for his concussion he couldn't remembered the same or why he was there.
How did Troy Aikman's concussion affect his memory?
400
They interviewed for too few people for it to be a real experiment.
In what ways was the first study flawed?
500
He had heart disease and became disable.
What happened to Mike webster & his brain after playing NFL?
500
20 gs
How often the force of the hits are 12 gs or more?
500
A serious injury to a person's body.
What is trauma?
500
They denied that there was a problem.
How did the NFL respond to the growing concerns over concussions?
500
It lead people to believe that concussions had no serious long-term negative impact to players.
How did the 16 published papers shape common opinion on concussion opinion on concussions and football?