Brain Impact - Kanoff

Question 1

What is a concussion?

Answer 1

ANY neurological symptom due to an impulse to the brain

Question 2

Typical concussion symptoms?

Answer 2

Typical symptoms: headache, nausea, vertigo, foggy, difficulty reading, concentration. Moody, withdrawn.

Made worse with activity and stimulation: light, sound, motion.

Question 3

What is the most important factor contributing to 2nd Impact Syndrome or Post Concussive syndrome?

Answer 3

How many concussions you have and how close the concussions are together.

Question 4

What is the responsibility of the coach of a child who is suspected to have a concussion?

Answer 4

Coach should bench the child and then have them get a note from a health professional to let them play again.

Question 5

Describe Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy:

What is its mechanism?

Answer 5

Late onset behavior changes including aggression, depression and cognitive deficits. Subsets show features of parkinsonism or ALS

Perivascular deposition of Tau in amygdala, thalamus, and sulci

BBB protein (HMGB1)-blocks inflammaotry TBI changes

Question 6

What helmet is endorsed by physicians?

Answer 6

There isn’t one.