Sport
Damage found after late AFLW player Jacinda Barclay donates brain for concussion research – The Guardian
Exclusive: Researchers at the Australian Sports Brain Bank have uncovered neurological damage they describe as a ‘ticking time bomb’
AFLW player Jacinda Barclay, who died last year, has become the first contact sportswoman in Australia to donate her brain to the Australian Sports Brain Bank, where researchers have uncovered neurological damage that they described as a ticking time bomb.
Barclay, who died in Chidlow, WA, last October aged 29 after a short but intense period of mental illness, was found by brain bank researchers to have degradation to her cerebral white matter.
Microdamage of this kind has been observed in American…
-
Noosa News22 hours agoMeet Chad Burgess, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party
-
Noosa News23 hours agoWestern Queensland graziers begin grim stock count after catastrophic floods
-
General21 hours agoTyler Wright soaks up Bells Beach return as poor conditions at Rip Curl Pro sees men’s opening round called off
-
General21 hours agoTruck driver charged with causing death by dangerous driving after highway crash