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Science Talk: Link Found Between Concussions and Brain Tissue Injury
Science Talk
English - August 21, 2009 05:00 - 3 minutes - 15.8 MB Video - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsCourses Education Science yeshiva university medical school Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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August 24, 2009 — Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for centuries whether concussions involve structural damage to brain tissue or whether physiological changes that merely impair the way brain cells function, explain this loss. Now, for the first time, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have linked areas of brain injury to specific altered mental processes caused by concussions.