https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x Made by Andrew Depp en-us 2018-10-25 22:26:06 UTC 2024-06-08 03:44:01 UTC hello@padlet.com adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297205673 Concussion by Jeanne Marie Laskas chronicles the story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian-born forensic pathologist known for his seminal research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease largely found in people who have sustained repetitive brain trauma. In 2002, while working as a pathologist at the Allegheny County coroner’s office in Pittsburgh. Omalu autopsied the brain of Pro Football Hall of Fame center “Iron Mike” Webster of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This led to his groundbreaking discovery of CTE in the brains of relatively young and otherwise healthy football players. When he published his first report on CTE in 2005 in Neurosurgery, Omalu assumed that the NFL would rejoice and take steps to ensure player safety. Instead, this report would lead to a decade-long battle with the NFL. Which refused to acknowledge the connection between football’s dangers and the resultant health of its players.]]> 2018-10-25 22:27:05 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297205673 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297207453
The lawyers point of view
https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2017/04/the-nfl-concussion-lawsuit-from-the-eyes-of-the-pittsburgh-lawyer-who-originated-the-case/
A GQ article
https://www.gq.com/story/nfl-players-brain-dementia-study-memory-concussions

]]> 2018-10-25 22:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297207453 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297208685 2018-10-25 22:47:07 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297208685 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297329703 2018-10-26 11:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297329703 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297330329 Since Dr. Omalu came from Africa he has a very heavy accent which created difficulty while communicating between the juries and him. ]]> 2018-10-26 11:33:03 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297330329 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297403805 2018-10-26 14:17:04 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297403805 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297406146 Will smith and Dr. Omalu in the premiere of the Concussion movie]]> 2018-10-26 14:21:32 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297406146 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297438252 Picture of Neurons in the brain making connections.]]> 2018-10-26 15:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297438252 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297444016 This is brain neurons making connections, like when you think.]]> 2018-10-26 15:29:42 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297444016 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297474411 "Determination. Sheer will. Whatever it took. He doubled, tripled, and quadrupled it."

"It acts like lubricant. But in concentrated masses, it forms clumps called neurofibrillary"

"Not appropriate science." 
"Purely speculative."
"The NFL was on defense, the media had picked up the offense.]]> 2018-10-26 16:25:27 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297474411 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297477059 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvWInUO9Vqo&spfreload=10&scrlybrkr=a4f88e10]]> 2018-10-26 16:31:19 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297477059 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297478028 2018-10-26 16:33:23 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297478028 adepp https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297487931 Since Dr.Omalu was from Africa they had superstitions that he was not qualified to make these confessions.]]> 2018-10-26 16:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/adepp/v02ni5yhn43x/wish/297487931