NFL、NCAA 资助脑震荡研究

星期四上午,奥巴马总统在白宫主持了关于脑震荡的峰会。在讲话中,奥巴马强调了体育运动的好处以及对创伤性脑损伤影响进行额外研究的必要性。

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星期四上午,奥巴马总统在白宫主持了关于脑震荡的峰会。在讲话中,奥巴马强调了体育运动的好处以及对创伤性脑损伤影响进行额外研究的必要性。奥巴马演讲中更重要的宣布之一是,NFL 正在捐款以寻找减少脑震荡的策略,包括资助 NIH 关于重复脑震荡影响的研究和临床试验。NCAA 和国防部也正在联合起来,开始一项针对超过 37,000 名大学运动员的关于脑震荡的大型、前所未有的研究。保护运动员的努力也体现在全国每个州都通过了立法,要求患有脑震荡的运动员在重返赛场前获得医疗许可。美国疾病控制与预防中心 (CDC) 有一个关于脑震荡的公众意识网站,其中包含面向家长、运动员和教练的完整信息

我认为很高兴看到像 NFL 和 NCAA 这样的大型体育组织将资金投入到脑研究中。希望这种趋势能够继续下去,以找到更好的方法来保障运动员和公众的安全。

About Princess Ojiaku

Hey there! I'm a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the Neuroscience and Public Policy program. I'm also a musician who played in two bands in North Carolina, one called Pink Flag and another called Deals. My personal passions are science, music, and cycling as transportation.

I got into science as a kid while tagging along and watching my mom do experiments in her lab. I found that while I loved science, I didn't want to be alone in an ivory tower, crunching data that few others would understand. I also noticed that many other people thought science was this scary and incomprehensible entity of obscurity. When I realized that there were people working to make science fun and accessible to everyone, I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do. The two things I find the most immensely interesting and continually impressing are music and neuroscience, so these are the topics that I'll focus on in my blog. Philosophy and politics are my second loves, so I might pop in an occasional post on these topics as well. Ultimately I am here to share things that give me wonder. I hope that reading Science with Moxie gives you a bit of that wonder too.

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