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Bobby Abdolmohammadi

Bobby Abdolmohammadi

Research Data Analyst III at the Boston University CTE Center, researching connections between repetitive head impacts, ice hockey, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

Aug 22, 2026

MattHOST
4:49
[laughs]
4:49
... because it's, it's a kind of long, uh, [laughs] meandering story.
4:53
But, uh, the brain bank was established in 2008, um, so almost 20 years ago now.
5:02
Uh, at the beginning, for the first seven or so years, um, there was a slow trickle of cases.
5:09
You know, there would be...
5:10
In the United States, a lot of the focus during that time was on, uh, a few high-profile NFL football, American football players who passed away, whose brains were donated to our lab, um, many of whom were diagnosed with CTE, with chronic traumatic, uh, encephalopathy.
5:30
Um, and so over the years, up until about 2015, 2016, um, we kinda just had this slow-growing brain bank, uh, which was...

6 MINS LATER

MattHOST
11:41
So h-how, how in particular should we interpret kind of those numbers in terms of connection to the longevity? And is there anything in particular that we shouldn't take from there? Is, or, you know, is there, is there more of a correlation?

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