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ironymaiden) wrote2009-10-15 09:54 am
ironymaiden) wrote2009-10-15 09:54 am
friday night lights
via a locked post, a cool brain science article combined with a comparison of football and dogfighting cultures: football, brain trauma, and being "game". (includes vivid description of dogfighting.)
key bit for the teal deer crowd: repeated knocks to the head cause the same kind of brain damage as second-stage Alzheimer's. the only way to see it is by dissecting the brain; the damage is already present at 18, and NFL vets have visible scar tissue. research is just starting, but this is also bad news for soldiers.
ugh. both of my brothers were linemen in high school and then went on to a couple decades of employment that involved getting knocked around. not in any way equivalent, but bad news when there's also family history of dementia.
what if the people who were such thugs in the land of my youth were suffering from brain damage, and had grown up with a brain-damaged parent (football/military/heavy machinery)? what extra frosting of awful does this add to physical abuse?
key bit for the teal deer crowd: repeated knocks to the head cause the same kind of brain damage as second-stage Alzheimer's. the only way to see it is by dissecting the brain; the damage is already present at 18, and NFL vets have visible scar tissue. research is just starting, but this is also bad news for soldiers.
ugh. both of my brothers were linemen in high school and then went on to a couple decades of employment that involved getting knocked around. not in any way equivalent, but bad news when there's also family history of dementia.
what if the people who were such thugs in the land of my youth were suffering from brain damage, and had grown up with a brain-damaged parent (football/military/heavy machinery)? what extra frosting of awful does this add to physical abuse?