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  • Professor and Senator Wm. McMaster Chair; Director, ARiEAL Research Centre; co-director of Language, Memory & Brain Laboratories, McMaster University
Brain damage linked to concussions in football can resemble that found in elderly and comatose patients but there may be ways to prevent it so the sport continues. Toronto Argonauts’ Jeffrey Finley, left, rushes to take down Calgary Stampeders’ quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell in this August file photo. ( THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh)

Grey Cup haunted by brain injury risk — but doesn’t have to be

John F. Connolly, McMaster University and Michael D. Noseworthy, McMaster University

Concussions in football and other contact sports correlate with severe, long-term brain damage — but science shows it doesn’t have to be that way.

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