{"id":5766,"date":"2015-01-28T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2015-01-28T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T03:00:48","slug":"study-of-retirees-links-youth-football-to-brain-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/28\/study-of-retirees-links-youth-football-to-brain-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Study of Retirees Links Youth Football to Brain Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/01\/29\/football-childs-play-adult-peril\/stern\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2015\/01\/stern-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"stern\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5756\" \/><\/a>New York Times<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/experts\/profiles\/robert-stern\/\">Robert Stern<\/a>, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center<\/h4>\n<p>A new study of\u00a0<a title=\"More articles about the National Football League.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/national_football_league\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">N.F.L.<\/a>\u00a0retirees found that those who began playing tackle football when they were younger than 12 years old had a higher risk of developing memory and thinking problems later in life.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Expert quote:<\/h3>\n<p>But \u201cit makes logical sense that kids during a time of rapid brain development should not be exposed to hit after hit after hit to their head,\u201d Dr. Stern said. \u201cTo me, it is logical. The brain is our most important organ. The idea of dropping kids off at a field during a very important period of maturation and fostering hit after hit after hit, it doesn\u2019t make sense to me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/29\/sports\/football\/study-points-to-cognitive-dangers-of-tackle-football-before-age-12.html?_r=0\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Robert Stern, PhD, neurology, neurosurgery, CTE Center A new study of\u00a0N.F.L.\u00a0retirees found that those who began playing tackle football when they were younger than 12 years old had a higher risk of developing memory and thinking problems later in life. &nbsp; &nbsp; Expert quote: But \u201cit makes logical sense that kids during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[126],"tags":[135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}