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Ann McKee
Ann McKee
American Scientist
Born: 1953
Brain Football Game Love Think You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan E. O. Wilson George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson W. Edwards Deming
I have a little easier time watching the NFL than college or high school. I used to go to the high school games, and now I have trouble with it. The NFL players get big rewards from it. I feel at least the NFL has made big changes to help their safety. And they're adults - they can make good decisions. Ann McKee
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While we know, on average, that certain positions experience more repetitive head impacts and are more likely at greater risk for CTE, no position is immune. Ann McKee
Experience Positions Immune Impacts Risk More Head Know Likely Greater Repetitive While Average Certain Position
The overwhelming evidence is that trauma is a major factor in CTE. Ann McKee
Overwhelming Evidence Factor Major Trauma
Nothing good happens without a penalty. Ann McKee
Good Nothing Penalty Without Happens
Our national identity is so interwoven with football. Ann McKee
National Our Interwoven Football Identity National Identity
I feel like Dr. Death. Ann McKee
Death Feel Like Dr
I can't say I love football anymore. Ann McKee
Love Say Football Anymore
If football is your passion in life and you would rather play football for 20 years and have a shortened life span, that's your choice. Ann McKee
Life You Passion Would Rather Life Span Football Years Span Shortened Choice Your Play Play Football
Frankly, I think it should be no football until you're physically mature. Ann McKee
You Think Frankly Physically Football Until Mature Should
We've now found CTE in former NFL players who played every position except kicker. Ann McKee
Every Except Former Who Found Now Played Players Position
Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game. Ann McKee
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I definitely agree about the future of youth football being flag. There's just more and more evidence that the youth brain is particularly susceptible to the injury - thin necks, big heads. They're not as coordinated; they're not as skillful. For many reasons, I think the wave of the future is flag football for youth. Ann McKee
Future Youth Big Think Wave Evidence Definitely About More More And More Football Heads Particularly Brain Flag Susceptible Just Being Skillful Reasons Many Agree Coordinated Injury Thin Necks
I think you have to be creative to make a difference in science. Ann McKee
You Creative Science Think Make Make A Difference Difference
I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped. Ann McKee
Love Way Shaped Looks Brain
My brothers played football. In fact, I was an absolutely enormous Packer fan, and because I was raised in such a football-centric community, I have always had a terrific admiration for football players. Ann McKee
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I run a number of different brain banks. Ann McKee
Run Brain Different Banks Number
It's impossible for me to dissociate the risk of playing football from the risk of C.T.E. Ann McKee
Me Impossible Risk Football Playing
I started out as a neurologist. I then trained in neuropathology and was focused on neurodegeneration. So, for years, I studied Alzheimer's, aging, Parkinson's, that kind of thing. Ann McKee
Focused Out Kind Neurologist Parkinson Studied Alzheimer Years Trained Then Aging Thing Started
The thing you want your kids to do most of all is succeed in life and be everything they can be. And if there's anything that may infringe on that, that may limit that, I don't want my kids doing it. Ann McKee
Life You Everything Kids Most Limit Doing May Want Anything Succeed Your Thing
Families don't donate brains of their loved ones unless they're concerned about the person. Ann McKee
Unless About Concerned Brains Families Person Donate Loved Loved Ones
Football is an extraordinarily popular sport, and the whole game is played around this issue. The whole makeup of the game involves these subconcussive hits. I don't know how they're going to solve that problem. I don't think they know how they're going to solve that problem. Ann McKee
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They're elite athletes. They're amazing athletes. That's why I love football. I mean, it's incredible to me to see them go out for an unbelievable pass and actually make the catch. It's just an amazing game of athleticism and skill. They're different; there's no question. They're huge, they're fast, and they're all these wonderful things. Ann McKee
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