{"id":6619,"date":"2010-08-18T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:23:36","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:23:36","slug":"head-trauma-linked-to-disease-that-mimics-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/18\/head-trauma-linked-to-disease-that-mimics-als\/","title":{"rendered":"Head trauma linked to disease that mimics ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BiJyy0DmBDY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/BiJyy0DmBDY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the BU Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) and the\u00a0Department of Veterans Affairs\u00a0in Bedford, Mass. have discovered a new motor neuron disease that mimics ALS, or Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease, which may be connected to head trauma.\u00a0Their findings, based on their work with\u00a0former athletes,\u00a0have been published in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. BU Today covered the findings, and spoke with CSTE codirectors Robert Stern, Christopher Nowinski, and Ann McKee (video above).<\/p>\n<p>More information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"ALS\/Brain Trauma Official Press Release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/phpbin\/news\/releases\/display.php?id=2116\" target=\"_blank\">Boston University and Department of Veterans Affairs Researchers Discover Brain Trauma in Sports May Cause a New Disease that Mimics ALS<\/a> (Press Release)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic ALS -- NY Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/18\/sports\/18gehrig.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic ALS<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Researchers at the BU Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) and the\u00a0Department of Veterans Affairs\u00a0in Bedford, Mass. have discovered a new motor neuron disease that mimics ALS, or Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease, which may be connected to head trauma.\u00a0Their findings, based on their work with\u00a0former athletes,\u00a0have been published in the September 2010 issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3494,3496,3498,3499,3495,3493,3497],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7556,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/7556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}