Bruce Parkman | The Mac Parkman Foundation

New and expanded: Youth Contact Sports and Broken Brains is now a free audiobook and eBook.

Concussions, concussions, concussions everywhere, what about the real danger, subconcussions?

As I learn to twit [tweet] and observe a lot of commentary on social media, I am still amazed at the lack of knowledge regarding subconcussions, contact sports and the links to mental illness. It is crazy to me that the people I follow, PHd’s, PAs, ATs, researchers,...

Attention all Zombies: We need Brain Donations for CTE/TES research!

A few weeks ago, I was honored to take a tour of the Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy brain bank hosted by the Concussion Legacy Foundation (CLF)and Dr. Ann McKee. It was amazing to see the facilities that these dedicated researchers work from to...

IT’S TIME TO REDEFINE CTE

The term CTE or Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a well-known term used to describe a condition found in people whose brains have been exposed to severe concussive and subconcussive trauma for years. Those brains, damaged by the trauma, are found to have high...

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