Immune System Involved in Brain Injury from Football (VIDEO)

University of Rochester Medical Center

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A new study suggests that brain injury from repeat blows to the head – observed among football players and soldiers – might not be a traumatic phenomenon, but an autoimmune phenomenon. It indicates that brain injury may be the result of an out-of-control immune response, much like multiple sclerosis. Dr. Jeffrey Bazarian, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine at URMC, discusses this entirely new way of thinking about how trauma could cause long term degeneration.

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