Chief Development Officer Jennifer Dale appeared on the 3/13/19 edition of the Paul W Smith Show on WJR to talk about CNS and Brain Injury Awareness Month. You can listen to her interview here: http://www.wjr.com/paulwsmith/ Work With Us If you are interested in having a representative from CNS speak to your school, company orRead More
Oath to My Country Video: Veterans with Brain Injury
At the Center for Neurological Studies we are dedicated to our veterans achieving a better quality of life. Over 400,000 of America’s veterans suffer from traumatic brain injury. Please donate and share this video with your friends! We NEED your help to dedicate more resources to veterans with brain injury. Oath to My Country Video:Read More
Is There a Contact Sport Safe From Head Injury?
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the debilitating brain disease researchers now know is caused by repetitive brain traumas, has marched its way through the alphabet of contact sports. First was boxing and its generations of ‘punch-drunk’ former boxers. Football was next with the death of Pittsburgh Steelers’ center, Mike Webster from whose brain CTE was firstRead More
NFL Settles Brain Injury Lawsuit
NFL settles brain injury lawsuit. “More than 4500 NFL football players and their families celebrate today as the National Football League consents to settle on a 765 million dollar lawsuit for withholding information about the negative effects of closed head injuries. The money won from the settlement will go to payment of medical bills forRead More
One Then Done: Chris Borland, Announced Retirement
The media was abuzz last week as the San Francisco 49ers linebacker, Chris Borland, announced retirement after his first year of play. In announcing his decision, Borland cited concerns over the long-term impact of football-related head injuries as the reason he chose to exit the game. An All-American linebacker out of Wisconsin, Borland was selected byRead More
Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy
Emerging Concepts Cerebral amyloid angiopathy is a disease most prevalent amongst the elderly. It is associated with Alzheimer’s disease with a prevalence of 80-90%. CAA is classified into several types depending on which amyloid protein is involved but this review focuses primarily on amyloid-beta protein. CAA can mostly be found in the leptomeningeal and corticalRead More
Judge approves NFL preliminary approval for compensation for thousands of former NFL players for concussion-related claims….
Debate regarding the health effects of concussions on American football players has caused considerable controversy. Concussions and other types of play-related traumatic brain injuries had been proposed as a major cause of player suicides and other symptoms after retirement including memory loss and depression. However, this past week a judge has approved a preliminary hearingRead More
John “Frenchy” Fuqua Gives A “Tell All” About His Recovery
Neurological problems are not uncommon in football stars, or any athlete that has played in contact sports. Recently, studies have identified a condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). CTE has symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s, ALS, and Parkinson’s. It occurs in people who’ve had multiple concussions. Concerns for CTE and other diseases that damage nerve cellsRead More
Ex-NFL Players Part of Brain study
As news builds around the NFL’s $765 million settlement for athletes with certain neurological ailments, the article below about CNS’s work on ex-NFL players was published on ESPN: —– DETROIT — Months before the NFL and former players agreed to settle their concussion-related lawsuits, a Detroit-based neurologist began what he calls a “landmark study” on the brainsRead More
Learn 5 Cognitive Enhancement Strategies
Our minds are like giant computers in the way that they work. But they are also like giant muscles too. The more we use them, the better they work. But how do we build up the muscle that is our brain. There are many different cognitive enhancement strategies you can use to build up brainRead More
