Dan Daneshvar: Making The Death Call
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
To study a dangerous disease, Dan Daneshvar asks families to consider donating their loved one's brains. Dan Daneshvar received an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Brain and Cognitive Sciences with Concentrations in Cognitive Neuroscience and Poetry. He joined the CTE Center at Boston University School of Medicine in January 2009, where he studies the effects of repetitive head impacts in athletes, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). He will receive M.D./Ph.D. dual degrees in May 2016 before beginning residency at Stanford. He also founded Team Up Against Concussions, an educational program that has educated over 25,000 middle and high schools students about concussions.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so... |
| 0:08.0 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:10.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:27.6 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.6 | This week's stories from Dan Danishvar. |
| 0:32.8 | It was recorded in March 2016 at AS-220 in Providence, Rhode Island, as part of Brain Week, Rhode Island. |
| 0:51.9 | So for four years, I had the most morbid Google alerts possible. |
| 0:57.0 | I set up Google news to let me know whenever any news articles were published that had any of the following two pairs of words. |
| 1:06.0 | The pairs were things like football died, concussion died, rugby died, soccer died, baseball died, |
| 1:16.4 | you get the idea. Before you go thinking that I have this really morbid, sick curiosity |
| 1:24.1 | about athletic deaths, I should let you know this was my job. It was my job to figure out |
| 1:29.0 | whenever an athlete died in this country so that I could look up their next-of-kin or loved |
| 1:34.0 | ones contact info and give them a call out of the blue to ask them whether they're interested |
| 1:39.9 | in donating their loved ones' brain to science. I should back up. I got my PhD studying the long-term effects of concussions in athletes. |
| 1:48.6 | You may have heard about my group's work. |
| 1:50.7 | We have looked at NFL players' brains after they die for evidence of a disease called |
| 1:57.4 | chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE for short. |
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