The family of late rugby league player Paul Green say they hope donating his brain to science will improve the understanding of brain health and mental health.
The Australian Sports Brain Bank researches Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy , a brain condition caused by repetitive head injury, often observed in sports players.
Researchers are still trying to understand the neurological disease, which can only be definitively diagnosed by an examination of the brain after death. In 2021, the Victorian coroner urged sports players to consider donating their brains to CTE research,Director of the Australian Sports Brain Bank and Clinical Associate Professor Michael Buckland said in a statement the family's decision to donate Green's brain would support critical CTE research.
"This is an incredibly generous donation and will be an invaluable part of our research into the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts in sport and elsewhere," he said."We at the Australian Sports Brain Bank are blown away by the fact that in their time of grief, Amanda and the rest of the family thought of how they could help others," Associate Professor Buckland said.
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