Host Bruce Parkman Interviews Chris Boyce About His Personal Brain Injury Diagnoses and Forming CTE & Brain Injury Global Support Recognized by the Concussion Legacy Foundation, Chris Boyce’s Facebook group CTE & The Brain Injury Global Support (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) is determined to implement. They focus on educating parents, sports leaders and the sports community about how concussive trauma has contributed or caused long-term brain health issues. Parkman shares his story about his son’s behavior of depression and distant behavior. Boyce shares similar symptoms of dizziness, anxiety, insomnia, short-term memory loss, anger issues, and sensory overload, among others that were…
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In this episode of Kid’s Brains Matter Podcast,Host Bruce Parkman interviews Dr. Nowinski, a partner with Boston University in the creation of the world’s leading resource for CTE research. Nowinski is the Co-Founder & CEO of the Concussion Legacy Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience from Boston University School of Medicine. He is also the author of Head Games: Football’s Concussion Crisis in 2006, where he emphasizes the goal to change sports and save brains. Personal experience has shaped his social entrepreneurship and life’s mission to change the public health problem of sports related brain injuries. After his…
Host Bruce Parkman interviews Author and Professor, Dr. Julie Stamm on the Kids’ Brain Matters Podcast Dr. Julie Stamm’s Background In this premiere podcast of Kids’ Brains Matter, host Bruce Parkman, Founder of Mac Parkman Foundation interviews Dr. Julie Stamm, athletic trainer and Professor of Kinesiology at University of Wisconsin. As an athlete herself, Stamm has a life-long love of sports. She received her Ph. D in anatomy and neurobiology from Boston University in CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) and long-term consequences. Out of her research and athlete interactions, Stamm started to wonder, “What happens to the brain when heads are…
In this episode of Kid’s Brains Matter, Bruce Parkman shares his personal story about the loss of his 17-year-old son Mac and how his loss inspired him and his family to spread awareness about the links between Youth Contact Sports, Brain Trauma, and Mental Illness affecting child athletes. He aims to spread awareness using the podcast on this relevant issue about mental illness. Parkman says, “As the podcast series unwinds and we start talking about sub-concussive trauma and concussive trauma in the brain, what is important to understand for all of us, is that our kids’ brains are developing.” Watch…