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The Concussion Debate: Can Playing Contact Sports Cause Brain Damage?

The Real Science of Sport Podcast

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Cte

CTE is a condition that happens as a consequence of repeated head impacts. It causes an accumulation of these phosphorylated tau proteins, which accumulate in the little grooves and fishes around part of the brain. There's controversy over whether CTE can be identified by living people. And we're trying to have a reasonable conversation about it in the midst of litigation,. Q now you get the other side howling at the fact that he's saying they're liars.

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