National Football League: Link Between Football And Brain Disease
Roman Acosta
March 30, 2016
Comp & Lit
Professor Waters
Tau Protein On March 15, 2016 the National Football League became aware of a link between playing football and the brain disease known as CTE. Jeff Miller, the National Football League’s senior vice president for health and safety, told the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce that head trauma caused by football can trigger brain disease. The scientists know that CTE is the result from head trauma, but there is so much about it they do not know yet. (Breslow)
Tau protein is known as a neurological disease. Tau is an unordinary protein that twists brain cells in parts of the brain that control the person’s emotions, memory and other functions. (Weinbaum and Delsohn). …show more content…
They end up suffering with Alzheimer’s disease or with dementia. CTE can cause a person to become violent and abusive with themselves or with others. Many researchers believe that tau protein can live in a person’s brain after having multiple concussions within their lifetime. The people in risk of being diagnosed with CTE are the athletes involved in contact sports such as football, boxing, soccer, and wrestling. Tau is a protein that holds the nerves in your brains intact but if there is constant head trauma that causes this tau protein to break loose then there is a risk of being diagnosed with CTE …show more content…
The National Football League did not admit to doing anything wrong as part of the settlement (Weinbaum and Delsohn).
Gary Small, a psychiatry professor at UCLA, has a part in a business called TauMark. The company claims that a “TauMark brain PET scan is the only available noninvasive method to measure the distribution and level of brain tau so doctors can detect problems early and monitor treatments.” Small was building on his research with athletes and proposes to be able to detect tau deposits in the brain of living subjects at risk for CTE. This project wants to expand these findings to everyone meaning your kid’s Pee-Wee football team could get the same treatment as Tony Dorsett (Brock).
There are more concerns even if the link is established. Dr. Michael Collins fears that coaches will see a big hit on the field and grab their scanners and get a quick tau reading on the sideline and if it comes back negative the player will be sent back into the game.
March 30, 2016
Comp & Lit
Professor Waters
Tau Protein On March 15, 2016 the National Football League became aware of a link between playing football and the brain disease known as CTE. Jeff Miller, the National Football League’s senior vice president for health and safety, told the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce that head trauma caused by football can trigger brain disease. The scientists know that CTE is the result from head trauma, but there is so much about it they do not know yet. (Breslow)
Tau protein is known as a neurological disease. Tau is an unordinary protein that twists brain cells in parts of the brain that control the person’s emotions, memory and other functions. (Weinbaum and Delsohn). …show more content…
They end up suffering with Alzheimer’s disease or with dementia. CTE can cause a person to become violent and abusive with themselves or with others. Many researchers believe that tau protein can live in a person’s brain after having multiple concussions within their lifetime. The people in risk of being diagnosed with CTE are the athletes involved in contact sports such as football, boxing, soccer, and wrestling. Tau is a protein that holds the nerves in your brains intact but if there is constant head trauma that causes this tau protein to break loose then there is a risk of being diagnosed with CTE …show more content…
The National Football League did not admit to doing anything wrong as part of the settlement (Weinbaum and Delsohn).
Gary Small, a psychiatry professor at UCLA, has a part in a business called TauMark. The company claims that a “TauMark brain PET scan is the only available noninvasive method to measure the distribution and level of brain tau so doctors can detect problems early and monitor treatments.” Small was building on his research with athletes and proposes to be able to detect tau deposits in the brain of living subjects at risk for CTE. This project wants to expand these findings to everyone meaning your kid’s Pee-Wee football team could get the same treatment as Tony Dorsett (Brock).
There are more concerns even if the link is established. Dr. Michael Collins fears that coaches will see a big hit on the field and grab their scanners and get a quick tau reading on the sideline and if it comes back negative the player will be sent back into the game.