Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE
كريس ناينسكي: "هل يمكنني الحصول على دماغك؟ مهمة البحث عن الحقيقية فيما يخص ارتجاج الدماغ ومرض الاعتلال الدماغي المزمن
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if you've met me in the last five years
وإذا قابلتني قبل 5 سنوات
a bit of an odd question:
if you don't know my story
إن لم تكن قد سمعت بقصتي من قبل
and I was an athlete
لقد كنت رياضيًا
to play football at Harvard University.
في جامعة هارفرد.
like most Harvard graduates,
from Monday Night Raw in 2002 and 2003,
في عام 2002م و 2003م
affectionately like to call
"المتكبر من الجامعة المرموقة".
by my colleague Bubba Ray Dudley,
من زميلي "ببا راي دادلي"
permanent postconcussion symptoms:
بأعراض ما بعد الارتجاج الدائمة
depression, feeling in a fog.
بالإضافة إلى الاكتئاب والشعور بعدم الاتزان
how could I make this pain go away.
كيف بإمكاني التغلب على الألم
the answers I needed from doctors,
into the medical literature.
this whole story about concussions
Football's Concussion Crisis"
أزمة ارتجاج المخ الناجمة عن كرة القدم"
it's not really just about concussions.
أن الأمر ليس فقط حول ارتجاج المخ.
chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
الناجم عن الصدمة النفسية أو "CTE".
because we only knew about it from boxers.
كما سمعنا عنه من الملاكمين.
too many times with boxers
على الرأس خلال الملاكمة
start to rot, to degenerate.
and problems with cognition,
وتدني مستوى الإدراك
control issues, aggression.
وعدم القدرة على التحكم بمشاعر الغضب.
were studied for this disease.
لهذا المرض على لاعبين من فريق "NFL"
50 years old, already had dementia.
في عمر 50 ولديه مشاكل في المخ.
45 years old when he took his life.
أقدم على الانتحار في عمر 45 سنة.
decided to look at their brains
في "بيتسبيرغ" فحص أدمغتهم
a big deal out of it.
the first two cases came in positive,
وجود حالتين مؤكدتين لهذا المرض،
news story about this,
with these cases of CTE.
لدى اللاعبين في كرة القدم.
November 20, 2006.
قرأت في الصحيفة
just took his life.
I grew up watching.
كرة القدم.
a Division II football coach
his nickname was Dirty Waters.
"واترز القذر"
about the concussions he had.
من ارتجاج في المخ.
where Andre Waters said,
حيث قال "اندريه واترز" فيها:
عندما وصلت لسن 15"
smelling salts and go back out there."
كنت أستنشق بعض الملح وأعود للملعب."
if he might have CTE, too.
ارتجاج في المخ هو الآخر.
made him choose to end his life.
وراء إقدامه على الإنتحار.
who did the first two studies, and I said,
الذي فحص الحالتين الأوليتين.
study Andre Waters."
جثة أندريه واترز."
"إنه من دواعي سروري."
died in the county in which I work,
حيث أعيش،"
he died in Florida.
لقد مات في فلوريدا."
you're going to have to figure out
the medical examiner
مع الطبيب الشرعي الآخر
in Florida, and I said,
وقلت له:
have the brain of Andre Waters?"
دماغ أندريه واترز؟"
study him for CTE?"
ما إذا كان لديه ارتجاج في المخ؟"
he didn't believe that was a real disease.
لم يكن الطب يؤمن بأن هذا مرض حقيقي.
do you mind if I have it?"
إذا أخذته؟"
of his next of kin,
من أقرب أقاربه
who his next of kin was and ask them,
من هم أقاربه من الدرجة الأولى وأسألهم
Andre Waters's 88-year-old mother.
أمًا تبلغ 88 من العمر.
a breath and I thought,
وفكرت في نفسي:
an 88-year-old grieving mother
امرأة طاعنة بعمر 88 عامًا
said, "Don't do it.
"لا تفعل ذلك.
this poor woman through,
لن تتحمله هذه المرأة المسكينة،
from this disease
هذا المرض
prevent this from happening in the future,
لمنع حدوث ذلك في المستقبل
and do something that's very hard."
وأن تقوم بالخطوة مهما كانت صعبة."
third... no voice mails.
ولا يوجد بريد صوتي.
was so gracious about the call and said,
أثناء الإتصال، وقلت لهم:
what happened to Andre.
ما الذي حدث لأندريه؟
in the last five years of his life."
خلال الخمس السنوات الأخيرة من حياته."
diagnosed with the disease.
تم تشخيصه بهذا المرض.
of three NFL players here.
من فريق "NFL"
a little bit more serious.
the Concussion Legacy Foundation,
some guy calling for brains.
يتصل للحصول على الأدمغة.
the best research team I could find.
اللذين أستطعت الحصول عليهم.
at the VA here in Boston,
"VA" هنا في بوسطن،
how to cure degenerative brain disease,
الأمراض الدماغية،
by actually studying the brains.
in the world focused on CTE.
يدرس مرض إرتجاج الدماغ.
and it's my job to get the brains
وعملي هو أن أحصل على الأدمغة
and her brain bank, right in the middle.
في بنك الأدمغة.
Dr. Robert Cantu,
والدكتور "روبرت كانتو"
of scientists that I support.
المكون من العلماء الذين أساعدهم.
in those early years.
في السنوات الأولى للمشروع.
by reading the obituaries.
بقراءة أخبار النعي والعزاء.
poor families that I've been calling
التي أقوم بالتواصل معها
to ask for their brains.
أقوم بهذا لمدة 10 سنوات.
as it started to really eat away at me,
بدأت أنزعج منه،
can I find another way
their brains to this research?
لأجل هذا البحث.
what if we could create a culture
to donate their brain after they died?
أن يتبرعوا بأدمغتهم بعد موتهم؟
was a brain donation registry.
لقائمة المتبرعين بالأدمغة.
to donate their brain to science.
على التبرع بأدمغتهم لصالح العلم.
a hockey player in 2009.
was a former Harvard hockey player,
كان لاعب هوكي في فريق هارفرد سابقًا،
in the NHL at the time.
لاعب في فريق "NHL".
what this was about.
عن فوائد هذا المشروع.
his brain to science,"
to the locker room the next day,
إلى غرفة التبديل اليوم التالي
pulled him aside and said,
your brain to science."
How many games are you going to miss?"
"واو! كم مبارة ستتغيب عنها؟"
they keep in their wallet.
ليضعوها في محافظهم.
obviously first, it says 01.
تحمل الرقم 1.
to have people like Brandi Chastain,
مثل "براندي شاستاين"،
Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti
اللاعب "نيك بونيكونتي"
signed up to pledge his brain.
سجل للتبرع بدماغه.
and the great thing about it
وأفضل ما فيه
in changing how we're able to get brains.
طريقة حصولنا على الأدمغة.
more families call us.
العائلات هي من تتصل بنا.
on taking this information,
على التالي:
towards a cure,
that we've able to get over the years
حصولنا على متبرعين
in the world of this disease
حسب الدراسات التي أجريت في العالم
100 brains since we started this.
منذ بدأنا هذا المشروع
is very frightening.
the headline in July
في عناوين الأخبار في يوليو
NFL players we looked at
football players we looked at,
that's a very big concern to me.
to actually treat this disease?
CTE in living people,
الدماغي المزمن في الأشخاص الأحياء
that are going to be coming
in the next five years.
is here to not only facilitate this work,
ليس فقط تسهيل هذا العمل
hey, we can prevent this.
in the head so much.
بتلك القسوة.
hitting children in the head.
على رؤسهم.
to hit a five-year-old in the head
أن تضرب طفل بعمر الخامسة على الرأس
open up the door to this disease.
للإصابة بهذا المرض.
a lot of work ahead of us.
on our way to curing this disease.
أننا سنقضي على هذا المرض.
my story a little more now.
أكثر الآن بعد سماعكم لها.
to know each other a little bit better,
أكثر بقليل.
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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