Delayed Recall - Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (September 2017)

The first interview in this month's Delayed Recall episode is from March 17, 2015; in this interview, Dr. Howard Goodkin and Dr. Robert Stern discuss the effect that age of first exposure to football has on later-life cognitive impairment in former NFL players. The second interview, from August 29, 2017, is a discussion between Dr. Jason Crowell and Dr. Jesse Mez about a July 2017 JAMA paper on occurrence of CTE in American football players. In the third interview, Dr. Christopher Giza speaks with Dr. John Hart about Dr. Hart's paper regarding depressive symptoms and white matter dysfunction in retired NFL players with concussion history. This interview originally appeared in the July 1, 2013 episode. The fourth and final interview is a discussion between Dr. Ted Burns and former NFL player Ben Utecht, regarding Mr. Utecht's Sept 23, 2014 editorial, "Concussed."