Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE
کریس نوینسکی: می توانم مغزت را داشته باشم؟ جستجوی حقیقت درباره آسیبهای ناشی از ضربه مغزی و CTE
Dr. Chris Nowinski is leading a global conversation on concussions, CTE and the future of sports. Full bio
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if you've met me in the last five years
۵ سال گذشته شما را دیده باشم،
a bit of an odd question:
if you don't know my story
این سوال، سوال عجیبیه
and I was an athlete
و یک ورزشکار پبودم
to play football at Harvard University.
برای بازی فوتبال (آمریکایی) استخدامم کرد.
like most Harvard graduates,
مثل اکثر فارغالتحصیلهای هاروارد،
(بنگاه مسابقات کشتی کج) شوم.
from Monday Night Raw in 2002 and 2003,
و ۲۰۰۳ مرا به یاد دارید،
affectionately like to call
از روی محبت به آن میگویند
by my colleague Bubba Ray Dudley,
با لگد زد توی سرم،
permanent postconcussion symptoms:
پس از آسیب دیدن سرم:
depression, feeling in a fog.
گیج، فراموشکار و حواس پرت شدم.
how could I make this pain go away.
این درد را درمان کنم.
the answers I needed from doctors,
سوالاتم پاسخ دهند،
into the medical literature.
ادبیات پزشکی کردم.
this whole story about concussions
درباره ضربه مغزی وجود دارد
دربارهاش بنویسم،
Football's Concussion Crisis"
بحران ضربه مغزی در فوتبال" گذاشتم
it's not really just about concussions.
مشکل فقط ضربههای مغزی نیست.
chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
مزمن ناشی از ضربه مغزی یا CTE نام داشت.
because we only knew about it from boxers.
چون فقط از بکسورها در موردش شنیده بودیم.
too many times with boxers
بکسورها چندین بار از ناحیه سر
start to rot, to degenerate.
مغز آنها میشود.
and problems with cognition,
یا نشناختن دیگران،
control issues, aggression.
در کنترل و پرخاشگری.
were studied for this disease.
فوتبال از این لحاظ معاینه شده بودند.
50 years old, already had dementia.
بود که دیوانه شده بود.
45 years old when he took his life.
بود که خودکشی کرد.
decided to look at their brains
تصمیم گرفت تا مغزهای آنها را ببیند
a big deal out of it.
خیلی مهم است.
the first two cases came in positive,
مثبت درآمد، حیرت آور این بود
news story about this,
with these cases of CTE.
با توجه به این موارد CTE.
November 20, 2006.
روزنامه را میخواندم
just took his life.
I grew up watching.
بزرگ شدن بازیهای او را تماشا کردم
a Division II football coach
مربی دسته دو فوتبال بود
his nickname was Dirty Waters.
که لقب او واترز کثیف بود
about the concussions he had.
سرش حرفی زده است.
where Andre Waters said,
که آندره واترز گفت،
smelling salts and go back out there."
بو میکردم و به زمین برمیگشتم.»
if he might have CTE, too.
مبتلا به CTE باشد.
made him choose to end his life.
او را وادار به خودکشی کرده باشد.
who did the first two studies, and I said,
اولیه را انجام داده بود، گفتم
study Andre Waters."
died in the county in which I work,
مورد تحقیق در شهر من مردند،
آنها را مطالعه کردم.
he died in Florida.
نمی توانستم جسد او را بررسی کنم.
you're going to have to figure out
به هرشکل ممکن
the medical examiner
معاینه کننده او حرف بزنم
in Florida, and I said,
درفلوریدا صحبت کردم و گفتم،
have the brain of Andre Waters?"
مغز آندره واترز پیش شماست؟"
study him for CTE?"
CTE بررسی کنی؟"
he didn't believe that was a real disease.
ناشی از ضربه مغزی فکر نمی کرد.
do you mind if I have it?"
مغز را به من بدهید؟"
of his next of kin,
who his next of kin was and ask them,
Andre Waters's 88-year-old mother.
نزدیکترین فامیل او بود.
a breath and I thought,
وبه خودم گفتم،
an 88-year-old grieving mother
۸۸ ساله او که پسرش تازه
said, "Don't do it.
this poor woman through,
بیش از پیش محزون میکنه،
from this disease
خودکشی میکنند
prevent this from happening in the future,
از این خودکشی جلوگیری کنند،
and do something that's very hard."
از او این تقاضا را بکنم."
third... no voice mails.
بارسوم... پیامگیر هم نداشت.
was so gracious about the call and said,
خیلی بخشنده بود و او به من گفت
what happened to Andre.
چه برسرآندره آمد.
in the last five years of his life."
آخرعمرش اینقدر عوض شد."
diagnosed with the disease.
شمالی بود که CTE داشت.
of three NFL players here.
شمالی را داریم.
a little bit more serious.
کمی جدیتر بررسی کنیم.
the Concussion Legacy Foundation,
بنیاد میراث ضربه مغزی،
شروع کردم،
some guy calling for brains.
مغز با من صحبت کردند.
the best research team I could find.
تشکیل دادم.
at the VA here in Boston,
همکاری کردیم،
how to cure degenerative brain disease,
روبه زوال را درمان کند،
by actually studying the brains.
in the world focused on CTE.
یک سری کارهای دیگرهم میکرد.
and it's my job to get the brains
و کار من دریافت مغزهاست
and her brain bank, right in the middle.
و بانک مغز، درست در این وسط است.
Dr. Robert Cantu,
دکتر رابرت کانتو کارمی کنیم،
of scientists that I support.
من از آنها پشتیبانی میکنم.
in those early years.
موفق شدم.
by reading the obituaries.
آگهیهای فوت را میخواندم.
poor families that I've been calling
بیچاره برای من سختتر است
to ask for their brains.
می گیرم تا مغزهایشان را بگیرم.
as it started to really eat away at me,
من شوک و افسرده میشدم،
can I find another way
راه دیگری هم هست
their brains to this research?
به مرکزتحقیق اهدا کنند؟
what if we could create a culture
to donate their brain after they died?
پس از مرگشان مغز خود را اهدا کنند؟
was a brain donation registry.
را تاسیس کردم.
to donate their brain to science.
مغزشان را به علم اهدا کنند.
a hockey player in 2009.
به عنوان نفراول، مغزش را اهدا کرد.
was a former Harvard hockey player,
بازیکن پیشین هاروارد بود،
in the NHL at the time.
لیگ هاروارد شمالی بود.
what this was about.
حقیقت پی بردند.
اخبارمنتشر شد،
his brain to science,"
دراختیار علم گذاشت،"
to the locker room the next day,
رختکن رفت،
pulled him aside and said,
به گوشهای کشید و گفت،
your brain to science."
How many games are you going to miss?"
تو خیلی مسابقات بازی کنی؟"
موفق شده بودیم--
ثبت نام کرده بودند.
they keep in their wallet.
آنها این کارت را نزد خود نگه داشتند.
obviously first, it says 01.
من نفراول بودم و اولین
را اهدا میکنم.
to have people like Brandi Chastain,
برندی چاستین،
مشهور، نیک بوئونکینتی
Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti
signed up to pledge his brain.
بودند، متعهد شد تا مغزش را اهدا کند.
and the great thing about it
و نکته فوقالعاده این بود
in changing how we're able to get brains.
روش گرفتن مغزها را عوض کنیم.
more families call us.
زنگ بزنم، آنها تماس میگیرند.
on taking this information,
اطلاعات میاندیشم،
towards a cure,
that we've able to get over the years
طی چند سال برای قهرمانانی که
in the world of this disease
در دنیا وجود داشت
100 brains since we started this.
جاهای دنیا هنوز ۱۰۰ مغز تحقیق نشده بود،
is very frightening.
بسیار دهشتناک است.
the headline in July
ماه ژوئیه
NFL players we looked at
که ما تحقیق به عمل آوردیم
football players we looked at,
that's a very big concern to me.
to actually treat this disease?
CTE in living people,
انسانهای زنده تشخیص دهیم،
that are going to be coming
in the next five years.
is here to not only facilitate this work,
میخواهد این کار را آسان کند،
hey, we can prevent this.
پیشگیری از آن است.
in the head so much.
جلوی این بیماری را میگیریم.
hitting children in the head.
به سر بچهها را متوقف کنیم.
to hit a five-year-old in the head
open up the door to this disease.
این بیماری را ایجاد میکند.
a lot of work ahead of us.
on our way to curing this disease.
این بیماری را درمان کنیم.
my story a little more now.
to know each other a little bit better,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Chris Nowinski - Social entrepreneurDr. Chris Nowinski is leading a global conversation on concussions, CTE and the future of sports.
Why you should listen
Dr. Chris Nowinski is an All-Ivy Harvard football player-turned WWE professional wrestler-turned neuroscientist. He discovered the concussion crisis the hard way: a 2003 kick to the chin in a WWE tag-team match ended his career, causing post-concussion syndrome and sending him on a journey where he uncovered a public health conspiracy that continues to cost lives.
Nowinski wrote the investigative expose Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis in 2006 and soon after founded the non-profit Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF), where he serves as CEO. He co-founded the world-famous Boston University (BU) CTE Center, where he serves as the outreach, recruitment, education, and public policy leader, as well as the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, where he led recruitment for the 2017 study that found 110 of 111 deceased NFL players had CTE. His journey has been profiled in media outlets like HBO's "Real Sports", ESPN's "Outside the Lines" and the New York Times, and he was the subject of the award-winning documentary Head Games: The Global Concussion Crisis by celebrated director Steve James.
Nowinski earned his doctorate in behavioral neuroscience from Boston University School of Medicine and has authored more than 25 scientific publications. VICE Sports called Nowinski "the man most responsible for making CTE part of the national conversation," and Sports Illustrated said, "It is Nowinski's figure which looms behind the doctors and the headlines and the debate roiling over sports'newfound commitment to minimizing head trauma."
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