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Damage to his brain. at the time, i was suffering really badly from symptoms youd usually associate with high—speed car crashes. the problem was, and what we wouldnt have realised back before, is that it wasntjust one high—speed car crash — it was one, two, three, four, within a couple of weeks of each other, which is unprecedented in the normal world. when you saw the results of the brain scan, did you immediately stop playing rugby or did you carry on for a bit? i never played a game of ...

We were expecting to see similar amounts of white matter hyperintensities in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimers disease, but we actually found higher levels in people with frontotemporal dementia, said study author Ramón Landin-Romero...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- According to the Centers for Disease Control, 50% of concussions go unreported. Thats scary to think about because there are millions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) hospitalizations and deaths each year. TBI is a major cause of death and disability in the U.S., but doctors now have an objective way to measure if someone may a traumatic brain injury. A newly authorized handheld tool thats already been introduced to physicians here in Houston could change the entire gam...

If you are a first responder and youre worried about whether you come forward for mental health because of stigma or because you think its going to jeopardize your job or career, you can come forward in this program because it safe and trusted and youre going to be amongst your peers. they can be vulnerable. they can allow themselves to be vulnerable which is one of the first step they take. you have a tremendous platform right here and everybody whos watching the show right now, if they are try...

Found that the animals did not show any major response to salt or glutamate but rather to a very specific ratio of pot to carbohydrates and. when we offer the rats different to carbohydrate mixtures what we find is that they have a great preference for a ratio of thirty five to fifty interestingly thats precisely the mixture we offered in potato chips. the scientists have done that ratio of thirty five percent thought to fifty percent carbohydrate than not. its also similar to the ratio in choco...

What he considered senator john mccains trail. although mr. mccain has died -- although mr. mccain has died -- peter had to write that sentence -- mr. trump remains upset. by the way, trump said, he wrote a book and the book bombed. >> commenting on the sales of a deceased senators book is rather remarkable for even this particular president. that is true this, one stuck in his craw since john mccain late at night -- >> if he were my grandfather, would i take him for a brain scan. thats bizarre ...

>> well, first, don, let me just say i have to commiserate with you on going from speaking to king james to talk about to a mere serf like me. i know this has to be a comedown. but were looking forward to the interview. in terms of trumps state of mind, its kind of interesting to see because i was looking at the twitter feed just as we came on here. and thats kind of the fever chart of the trump presidency. thats kind of an ongoing brain scan to show where trump was at. its pretty obvious that a...

Doesnt sound like its going to be done. certainly no evidence that a brain scan would be done, no neuropsychiatric valuatievaluat things that would find early i dont know set dementia, were hearing specifically they wont be done. >> i know youve thought a lot about this, where is the line between a persons right to privacy and the american peoples right to know or to be assured of the presidents fitness to lead? >> weve thought about this a lot as you know. weve been reporting on this for 16 yea...

>> good point. its interesting, you may remember this was found on a routine exam. senator mccain had been feeling a little tired, this is back in july. he went in for an exam. he ended up getting a brain scan which showed a blood collection that was just right in this area of his left eyebrow. he subsequently had an operation and diagnosed with a tumor at that time. the tumor is what caused the blood collection. this type of tumor, people may know this, its a type of brain tumor and it is an ag...

Years we need to have a reliable detection system which should be as easy as a blood test for example or a unit were hearing tests or kind of imaging brain scan which should tell us whether or not a person is add risk or at high risk to develop alzheimers disease and then we would actually try to convince that person that intervention would be necessary in order to prevent him from having dementia and later stages of his life if we treat alzheimers right now what are the options. treatment as it...