The National Football League and chronic traumatic encephalopathy: Legal implications

Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 430-436

  Korngold, Caleb ^a,b   Farrell, Helen M ^a,b   Fozdar, Manish ^c,d,e  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Triangle Forensic Neuropsychiatry   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY; EXPERT WITNESS; FOOTBALL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INJURY; LEGAL ASPECT; PATHOLOGY; POLITICS; RISK; SPORT INJURY; STATISTICS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURY, CHRONIC; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FOOTBALL; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; POLITICS; RISK; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884375050     PISSN: 10936793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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