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boxers' encephalopathy |
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boxers' encephalopathy
Dementia pugilistica Sports medicine Boxing causes major neuropsychologic defects in its long-term practitioners when tested by the Wechsler and Bender Gestalt tests, causing variable organic mental disease and
impaired short-term memory, dysarthria, nystagmus, reasoning ability, and motor skills; CT evidence of cortical atrophy Acute boxing injuries Cerebral edema, ischemia, and temporal or uncal herniation. See Blood sport, Broughton rules, Marquis of
Queensbury rules, 'Punch-drunk' syndrome. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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