“Dr. Pellman is not a neurosurgeon, he’s not a neuro-anything. He’s a rheumatologist.” -League of Denial, 2013 When faced with the task of investigating concussions in football, the National Football League (NFL) did not choose a neurologist to head the committee; they did not choose a neurosurgeon: they chose a rheumatologist. The documentary “League of […]
Category Archives: Sports
March
09
The Athlete in Your Brain
posted by Christian Cazares
How your brain may reflect your skill as an athlete.
February
18
“It ain’t about how hard you hit”
posted by Elena Blanco-Suarez, Ph.D.
[En español] Have you ever felt your brain bouncing inside your skull after you got your head banged? Or have you ever hit your head so hard that you felt the world spinning around you like you were totally wasted? This is how Shannon Gugerty, a professional MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, describes his experience […]
July
04
Does Tourette’s Syndrome help Tim Howard?
posted by alexvsscience
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the past fortnight, the FIFA World Cup has been on. Unfortunately the US Men’s team was knocked out by Belgium in extra time on Tuesday, but if one man can hold his head high it is Tim Howard. The US goalkeeper made a […]
May
08
Neurons, Footballs, and the Draft! Oh my!
posted by Ethan McBride
Tonight, a few hundred football players will be chosen by one of the 32 teams of the National Football League in the hopes of making millions of dollars and establishing their names in the glory of NFL history. Yet only a tiny fraction of college football players, 1.6%, and an even smaller fraction of high school […]
