{"id":180,"date":"2008-10-02T10:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/?p=180"},"modified":"2008-10-02T10:40:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:40:36","slug":"6-ex-nflers-to-give-brains-to-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/2008\/10\/02\/6-ex-nflers-to-give-brains-to-science\/","title":{"rendered":"6 ex-NFLers to give brains to science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/09\/25\/SPBR134IRE.DTL&amp;feed=rss.sports\" target=\"_blank\">full story<\/a>.<br \/>\nSan Francisco Gate<br \/>\nThe study is a joint effort by Nowinski&#8217;s Sports Legacy Institute and the Boston University School of Medicine<br \/>\nThis article also appeared in <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/health\/athletes.donate.brains.2.825035.html\" target=\"_blank\">WCBSTV.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wbztv.com\/local\/athletes.donate.brains.2.824770.html\" target=\"_blank\">WBZ-TV.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kgw.com\/sharedcontent\/northwest\/sports\/seahawks\/stories\/NW_092408SHB_Kacyvenski_donates_brain_TP.abf0c1d7.html\" target=\"_blank\">kgw.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumberlink.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/25\/ap\/health\/d93d86so0.txt\" target=\"_blank\">The Sentinel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postchronicle.com\/news\/science\/article_212174613.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Post Chronicle<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/news\/2008\/sep\/24\/athletes-donate-brains-in-concussion-study\/?partner=RSS\" target=\"_blank\">Knox News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/sports\/ci_10554718\" target=\"_blank\">Lowell Sun<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcfcourier.com\/articles\/2008\/09\/25\/ap\/health\/d93d86so0.txt\" target=\"_blank\">Cedar Falls Courier<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080924\/ap_on_sp_fo_ne\/fbn_concussions_brain_donations\">Yahoo News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/othersports\/380457_brains25.html\" target=\"_blank\">Seattlepi.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/seahawks\/2008201489_nfl25.html?syndication=rss\" target=\"_blank\">The Seattle Times<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/content\/shared-gen\/ap\/General_Football_News\/FBN_Concussions_Brain_Donations.html\" target=\"_blank\">Statesman.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialwire.com\/main.php?action=posted_news&amp;rid=76215&amp;catid=847\" target=\"_blank\">Official Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cantonrep.com\/index.php?Category=16&amp;ID=432980&amp;r=6&amp;subCategoryID=\" target=\"_blank\">CantonRep.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wtvg\/story?section=news\/health&amp;id=6414331\" target=\"_blank\">WTVG-TV<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/edmontonjournal\/news\/sports\/story.html?id=4d141696-f5f9-411c-92a2-57d3aa5802b1\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Journal<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/webcenters.netscape.compuserve.com\/sports\/story.jsp?idq=\/ff\/story\/0030\/20080924\/1749336744.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Netscape Sports<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/savagedawgs.chroniclet.com\/?p=462\" target=\"_blank\">Savage Dawgs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2008\/09\/24\/ap5467455.html\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2008\/football\/nfl\/wires\/09\/24\/2020.ap.fbn.concussions.brain.donations.2nd.ld.writethru.0867\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for full story. San Francisco Gate The study is a joint effort by Nowinski&#8217;s Sports Legacy Institute and the Boston University School of Medicine This article also appeared in WCBSTV.com, WBZ-TV.com, kgw.com, The Sentinel, Post Chronicle, Knox News, Lowell Sun, Cedar Falls Courier, Yahoo News, Seattlepi.com, The Seattle Times, Statesman.com, Official Wire, CantonRep.com, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}