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02/24/2009 Archived Entry: "Verne Gagne and Aging Pro Athletes: Studies Focus on Brain Damage"
Verne Gagne and Aging Pro Athletes: Studies Focus on Brain Damage
By Kevin Featherly
Courtesy of Bragging Rights Corner
A prominent group of researchers studying the brains of dead professional athletes who were thought to have Alzheimer's are finding a striking result: they actually had a different condition, with similar symptoms but a far different cause — repeated concussion injuries leading to brain damage.
As more and more professional athletes struggle after playing sometimes violent sports, a body of research is emerging on traumatic injury-related dementia suffered by former pro wrestlers, football players and boxers.
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