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neuropathologist
[noor-oh-puh-thahl-uhj-ist]
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Neuropathologist Dr Kieran Allinson, who treated Anita at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, likened her injuries to those seen in high speed car crashes and said they were consistent with kicking, stamping and repeated impacts to the head.
This discovery prompted Fabian-Fine, a Vermont Center for Cardiovascular and Brain Health Pipeline Investigator, to explore whether a similar system could be found in both rodent and human brain tissue, so she teamed up with neuropathologist Dr. DeWitt at UVM's Larner College of Medicine.
After Goff died, Tina donated his brain for examination by Prof Willie Stewart - the pre-eminent neuropathologist who specialises in CTE cases in sportspeople and has advised sports bodies around concussion protocols.
"Former professional footballers are at much higher risk of degenerative brain diseases, dementias and related disorders," says Prof Stewart, who is a consultant neuropathologist at the University of Glasgow.
When neuropathologist Bennet Omalu conducted Webster’s autopsy, he discovered tangles of proteins dislodged from Webster’s brain cells by thousands of hits.
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