Bennet Omalu

We just did a meta-analysis, and on average, when you go to a community brain bank, 0.6% of people have it, which is a small number, but if you extrapolate that to an adult population, that means in the US, there's more than a million people living with it.

Um, and the question was, well, how do you get brains in faster? You know, the, famously, the, Bennet Omalu, you know, disco- diagnosed the first NFL player with CTE, but he was the medical examiner where he died.

And he did that a second time in Pittsburgh, and I realized if we're gonna do this faster, we actually have to go to families when people pass away.

And so the first few years of the brain bank, nearly every brain that was donated was me reading about an NFL player dying and tracking down their family and trying to get ahold of them within 72 hours when the brain is no longer viable to get the brain in formalin and get, get it to BU.

So now we've all got an actual, how do I say this? A, an idea or a mindset or, uh, even the knowledge now of CTE from every angle, what it is and what it isn't.

When we come back for the following episodes after this, we're actually got an episode with concussion and women in sports perspective from a sociology standpoint, and then also we've got another episode coming up where we're actually gonna be talking about media representation and what the media does, whether it be deliberately, not deliberately, very bad terminology there on my part, and how it actually frames, and I've brought this up in previous episodes where if you look at the 2015 Concussion movie with Will Smith about Dr. Bennet Omalu and the discovery of CTE in Mike Webster in the NFL football, aiming back at the 2002 article that he released.

Anyway, you, you look at that movie, the title of it is Concussion, so naturally we think, "Okay, this is gonna be about concussion.

The movie's gonna be about concussion and all the consequences and the fallout." Now, the movie itself, if you actually look at it in its entirety, it's about CTE and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or encephalopathy, depends how you want to pronounce it.