John Tiwald
- Dec 10, 2018
- 14 min
‘I Want to Live Like a Human Being’: Where New York Fails Its Mentally Ill
More than 200 interviews and thousands of pages of medical, social work and housing records reviewed by ProPublica and FRONTLINE, in collabo
John Tiwald
- Jul 26, 2017
- 5 min
111 NFL Brains. All But One Had CTE.
Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist, has examined the brains of 202 deceased football players. A broad survey of her findings was published on
John Tiwald
- May 16, 2017
- 5 min
A Simple, Clear Message on the Sports-Brain Injury Controversy
The debate over CTE's existence, associations, and causes has sparked politics and cover-up, breakthrough research, and even a Will Smit
John Tiwald
- May 2, 2017
- 3 min
Plasma Total-Tau Level May Flag CTE
Repeated head impact (RHI) exposure predicts higher later-life plasma total-tau (t-tau) concentrations in former professional football playe
John Tiwald
- Nov 4, 2016
- 3 min
Traumatic Brain Injury Induces Mental Impairments Using Mechanisms Linked with Alzheimer’s
A new study from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston fills an important gap in understanding the link between traumatic brai
John Tiwald
- May 7, 2016
- 6 min
N.F.L. Shifts on Concussions, and Game May Never Be the Same
Excerpted from The New York Times | By Ken Belson and Alan Schwarz Perhaps no one will remember the setting, a hearing room for the House...