Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE
Chris Nowinski: Szabadna, kérem, az agyát? Mi az igazság az agyrázkódásról és a CTE-ről?
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
ha találkoztunk az utóbbi öt évben,
a bit of an odd question:
furcsa kérdést tettem föl:
if you don't know my story
furcsállják a kérdésemet,
and I was an athlete
nőttem föl, sportoltam,
to play football at Harvard University.
amiért bevettek a Harvard focicsapatába.
like most Harvard graduates,
mint a legtöbb Harvard-végzős,
a Pankrátor Világszövetséghez.
from Monday Night Raw in 2002 and 2003,
Monday Night Raw programból,
affectionately like to call
sznobjának hívott.
by my colleague Bubba Ray Dudley,
permanent postconcussion symptoms:
tüneteket eredményezett:
depression, feeling in a fog.
depresszió, homályállapot.
how could I make this pain go away.
the answers I needed from doctors,
into the medical literature.
az orvosi szakirodalomba.
kiterjedt története létezik,
this whole story about concussions
Football's Concussion Crisis"
it's not really just about concussions.
az agyrázkódásról szereztem ismereteket,
chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
agysérülésről, vagyis a CTE-ről.
because we only knew about it from boxers.
mert csak bokszolókról volt közismert.
too many times with boxers
fejre túl sok ütést kapnak,
start to rot, to degenerate.
and problems with cognition,
megértési képesség zavarai,
control issues, aggression.
were studied for this disease.
ezzel a betegséggel vizsgálták.
50 years old, already had dementia.
már demenciában szenvedett.
45 years old when he took his life.
45 évesen lett öngyilkos.
decided to look at their brains
agyuk megvizsgálása mellett döntött,
a big deal out of it.
pozitív diagnózis ellenére
the first two cases came in positive,
news story about this,
with these cases of CTE.
az esetek a fociban.
November 20, 2006.
2006. november 20-án –,
just took his life.
I grew up watching.
a Division II football coach
his nickname was Dirty Waters.
volt a gúnyneve,
about the concussions he had.
where Andre Waters said,
már nem számoltam.
smelling salts and go back out there."
és már megyek is vissza játszani."
if he might have CTE, too.
made him choose to end his life.
hogy életének véget vessen.
who did the first two studies, and I said,
study Andre Waters."
vizsgálnia Andre Waterst."
megtenném, de nem megy.
died in the county in which I work,
a körzetemben halt meg,
he died in Florida.
you're going to have to figure out
the medical examiner
föl kéne hívjam a patológust,
és azt mondtam neki:
in Florida, and I said,
magánál van Andre Waters agya?"
have the brain of Andre Waters?"
study him for CTE?"
CTE-szempontból is?"
he didn't believe that was a real disease.
akkor nem tartotta igazi betegségnek.
do you mind if I have it?"
of his next of kin,
hozzátartozó engedélyét,
who his next of kin was and ask them,
ki a legközelebbi hozzátartozó.
Andre Waters's 88-year-old mother.
anyjától kell engedélyt kérnem.
a breath and I thought,
és elgondolkoztam:
an 88-year-old grieving mother
gyászoló anyára, aki most vesztette el
said, "Don't do it.
a bensőmben: "Ne tedd!
this poor woman through,
from this disease
e betegség miatt ölik meg magukat,
prevent this from happening in the future,
megelőzhető, hogy ismét előforduljon,
and do something that's very hard."
s meg kell tennünk a súlyos lépést.
third... no voice mails.
harmadszor... nincs üzenetrögzítő.
was so gracious about the call and said,
jóindulatúan fogadta a hívást:
what happened to Andre.
mi történt Andreval,
in the last five years of his life."
az utolsó öt évben?"
diagnosed with the disease.
akinél e betegséget diagnosztizálták.
és a súlyos közt volt.
of three NFL players here.
igazolódott be a CTE.
a little bit more serious.
the Concussion Legacy Foundation,
Következményei Alapítványt,
some guy calling for brains.
kajtató fickó legyek.
the best research team I could find.
legjobb kutatócsoportot.
at the VA here in Boston,
how to cure degenerative brain disease,
by actually studying the brains.
in the world focused on CTE.
először figyelmet a CTE-re.
and it's my job to get the brains
és az én dolgom az agyak előteremtése
and her brain bank, right in the middle.
ő az ott, középen.
Dr. Robert Cantu,
dr. Robert Cantuval;
of scientists that I support.
in those early years.
by reading the obituaries.
olvasásával kezdem.
poor families that I've been calling
a szerencsétlen családoknak,
to ask for their brains.
as it started to really eat away at me,
can I find another way
their brains to this research?
agyukat az emberek?
what if we could create a culture
to donate their brain after they died?
agyukat a tudományra hagyományozni?
was a brain donation registry.
nyilvántartását.
to donate their brain to science.
a tudománynak ajánlják föl?
a hockey player in 2009.
was a former Harvard hockey player,
in the NHL at the time.
Noah Welch tette.
what this was about.
értették meg, miről van szó.
his brain to science,"
to the locker room the next day,
pulled him aside and said,
your brain to science."
adod az agyadat."
How many games are you going to miss?"
meccset hagysz ki emiatt?"
they keep in their wallet.
amelyet a tárcájukban hordhatnak.
obviously first, it says 01.
a 01-es szám áll rajta.
to have people like Brandi Chastain,
hogy a legendás női focista,
Hall-of-Famer Nick Buoniconti
signed up to pledge his brain.
is föliratkozott.
and the great thing about it
in changing how we're able to get brains.
az agyak beszerzési módját.
more families call us.
hanem bennünket hívnak.
on taking this information,
elemzésére összpontosíthatok,
towards a cure,
that we've able to get over the years
melyeket évek alatt gyűjtöttünk össze
in the world of this disease
45 esete volt ismert a világon,
100 brains since we started this.
100 agyat sem vizsgált ez idő alatt.
is very frightening.
the headline in July
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,
a CTE-t diagnosztizálni,
that are going to be coming
in the next five years.
is here to not only facilitate this work,
hey, we can prevent this.
in the head so much.
hitting children in the head.
óvni kell a gyerekek fejét.
to hit a five-year-old in the head
open up the door to this disease.
a lot of work ahead of us.
on our way to curing this disease.
haladunk a kór gyógyítása felé.
my story a little more now.
értik a történetemet.
to know each other a little bit better,
jobban megismerkedtünk,
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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