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Did rugby give me dementia at 40?

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The Future of Electric Aircraft

More people are disabled by and die from neurological disorders than heart disease, cancer, and kidney disease put together. The number of specialists in the UK is incredibly small so most of them don't have access to specialist care. Once you have sorted out how to cure head injuries, it will be the same therapy that cures stroke, Alzheimer's, all other forms of dementia, multiple sclerosis. How do you get nerve cells to regrow? It's called neuro regeneration. And if we crack that, we've solved the problem. But it's a much bigger problem.

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