Domestic violence brain injuries likely outnumber head trauma from football players
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Brain Injury Awareness Month highlights the hidden epidemic of brain injuries from domestic violence.
In 1990, Dr. Gareth Roberts evaluated the brain of a 76-year-old woman who died after years of abuse from her husband who was reported to have become ‘demented’ in her final years, according to the news outlet.
But he discovered on autopsy that her brain was similar to those patients with Alzheimer’s and compatible "to a degree" with boxers who suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and the case became the first connection in the literature between neurogenerative disease and abused women, according to the Times.
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