【科学60秒】足球运动员的"隐形杀手"(双语有声)
作者：amber_cy
来源：沪江论坛
2011-10-01 00:15
More Football Players Found to Suffer From Degenerate
足球运动员的"隐形杀手"
On February 17 former Chicago Bears football player Dave Duerson killed himself with a gun shot to the chest.
二月17日，前芝加哥熊队足球运动员Dave Duerson用一把枪抵着自己的胸部自杀了。
Doctors later found that Duerson had a condition in common with more than 20 other dead football players in the U.S.: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE, a degenerative disease linked to impulsive behavior, depression and dementia. And Duerson thought he had it. Which is why he took great care to leave his brain intact for study.
医护人员随后发现Duerson和其他20多名美国死亡的足球运动员有一个普遍特性：慢性创伤性脑病（简称CET），一种与冲动行为、抑郁以及痴呆相关的变性疾病。而Duerson认为自己得了这种病，正因为如此，他小心翼翼的保存自己大脑的完整以供研究。
And concerns have been growing that the concussions and other head injuries that are common in the NFL might be to blame.
随着社会舆论的不断关注，在NFL中常见的脑震荡或其他脑损伤可能会承担一些责任。
Last week the Canadian Sports Concussion Project announced the results from brain autopsies of four CFL football players. Bobby Kuntz, a former Toronto Argonaut and Jay Roberts, who played for the Ottawa Roughriders, showed classic signs of CTE. But Peter Ribbons, a Winnipeg Blue Bomber, and Tony Proudfoot, from the Montreal Alloettes, showed no signs. All four played when it was common to spear opponents with head-first tackles.
上周，加拿大运动性脑震荡项目宣布了4名CFL足球运动员的大脑解剖结果。前多伦多亚尔古队队员Bobby Kuntz和曾为渥太华野蛮骑士队踢球的Jay Roberts有典型的CTE症状。但是温尼伯蓝色轰炸机队的Peter Ribbons和蒙特利尔云雀队的Tony Proudfoot并无症状。这四位的共同特点都是用头部拦截对手的球。
The Canadian Project seeks more brain donations from former contact sport athletes. To try to find out why some seem able to avoid CTE, while others tragically are not.
加拿大项目旨在从前接触型运动项目运动员中获得更多的大脑捐赠，试图找出为什么有些运动员可以避免CTE，而有些却悲剧的无法避免。
—Christie Nicholsonive