Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110226:12:48:00
We have the committee on head neck and spine safety. they are neurosurgeons. they know the territory. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> they have examined more than two dozen brains. they have found brain damage, evidence of it in most of them. do we have enough evidence to say that playing football is bad for your brain? is dangerous for your health? >> we have known this since the 1920s and the experience in the boxing world where cases of dementia was defined. you know, it's not a surprise that repetitive head injury, as you know so well, can cause long-ter...