Have you ever found yourself at the grocery store, facing six choices of rice where you wish there were one? Okay, well, obviously I am talking about myself. I can stand in front of four choices of rice or yogurt or ice cream, or whatever the need of the moment is, for minutes, stuck in indecision. Brand A is definitely […]
I’ll be talking about the movie Concussion on WTTW, channel 11 here in Chicagoland. I look forward to talking with Phil Ponce on my second stint on Chicago Tonight (on my first visit, I talked about our work with rats and helping behavior). To anticipate talking about concussions (more so than about the movie), I thought I’d get into the spirit and give […]
For those of you who enjoy watching soccer (known as football everywhere outside of the U.S.), there was an unfortunate episode in the semifinal between the U.S. and German teams. As reported in the New York Times, two players inadvertently crashed heads. Both ended up on the ground, holding their heads, for minutes. New York Times reporter Jeré Longman reports that according […]
In my post on anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, I wrote that the blood-brain-barrier or BBB should prevent big and bulky antibodies from passing into the brain, but for reasons that are just beginning to be explored and understood, the BBB fails at its job. A reader, Bruce, asked , ” Is the ‘upshot’ of this that ‘we’ don’t really know how […]
I know that I sound like a broken record when it comes to concussions but apparently the message is not being received. So I feel compelled to broadcast again and again and again and again the importance of careful management of head trauma. I did not follow the World Cup but received information about the Pereira incident from a colleague. The […]
On Thursday afternoon at World Cup play, a Uruguayan player was hit in the head, inadvertently, by the knee of another player. The player, Alvaro Pereira, lay motionless and apparently unconscious on the pitch whilst the team doctor signaled for a substitution. Pereira came to consciousness and vociferously objected to being taken out of the game. Two minutes layer, Pereira […]
I was watching the NBA basketball game between the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers when Paul George fell down and suffered at least one blow to his head. I initially saw two blows – one when Dwayne Wade’s knee hit the back of Mr George’s head and one when Mr George’s head hit the floor. Upon looking at the […]
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