Director : Peter Landesman
Screenplay : Peter Landesman
Based on : Game Brain by Jeanne Marie Laskas
Running : 122 minutes
Distributor : Columbia Pictures
Country : United States
The movie 'Concussion', being released on Christmas Day, profiles the work of Bennet Omalu, the first person to find a link between football players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, and how much the NFL did or didn’t know about the effects of concussion on its players.
In advance of the film’s release, Omalu has written an op-ed in Monday’s New York Times, in which he says that children under age 18 should not be allowed to play full-contact football. Omalu begins his piece by noting that as it was learned the dangers of things like cigarettes, asbestos and alcohol, changes were made and laws enacted to protect individuals from the effects of those substances.
Even if a child who plays football does not have any documented concussions or reported symptoms, Omalu writes, the child could still show evidence of brain damage at the cellular level. Over time, these cellular injuries accumulate and cause irreversible brain damage, damage we now know as CTE.
In more severe cases of CTE, symptoms like depression, memory loss, suicidal thought and action, loss of intelligence and dementia can develop, and CTE has also been linked to drug and alcohol abuse as the child enters his 20s and beyond.To that end, Omalu suggests there should be a minimum age to play football, just as there is for drinking, voting and joining the military, as a means of protecting the brain.
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