Ecstatic to bring you our lab's new preprint of my second first author paper and the bulk of my thesis work examining the effects of repetitive head impacts in young individuals who played contact sports. @bu_cte
🧵to follow for a run-through! 👇 1/n
https://t.co/vcokiGDfFK
Repetitive head impacts trigger neuronal loss and disrupt blood vessels and immune cells long before the accumulation of neurotoxic tau protein
https://t.co/oFi3VVb7jr
A big thanks to the team @bu_cte and @joncherry86 for your support though this work and to @BachstetterLab and @Morganti_Lab for your article summarizing the paper which you can read here!
https://t.co/krOqmgwAW2
Excited to share that my thesis work in now published! @Nature@bu_cte
We investigated the earliest responses following repeated head trauma in athletes and found significant neuronal loss, microglial inflammation, and vascular damage.
https://t.co/YdMcRnwd1k
*opens dissertation, find and replace “subconcussive” ➡️ “nonconcussive” *
Important editorial by @ChrisNowinski1 and @DanDaneshvar helping us reshape our language regarding head impacts in the absence of concussion.
@bu_cte
Many hits that don't cause concussions are harder than the hits that do
We should be calling these hits "nonconcussive"
"Subconcussive" makes them sound smaller. They're not
Ecstatic to bring you our lab's new preprint of my second first author paper and the bulk of my thesis work examining the effects of repetitive head impacts in young individuals who played contact sports. @bu_cte
🧵to follow for a run-through! 👇 1/n
https://t.co/vcokiGDfFK
This work is the product of a village, I owe a massive thank you to @joncherry86@annmckeemd@petraypsilantis Ray Nicks, Liz Spurlock, our collaborators Dr. Josh Campbell, Nida Pervaiz, Sarah Mazilli, Julia Breda, Dr. Marco Hefti, and many others. 14/n
Across the cell types discussed we see significant changes in RHI-exposed individuals regardless of CTE status, suggesting cellular changes begin long before disease onset. There is lots more that I can’t get to here so please feel free to reach out to me with questions! 13/n