Comments on: Did concussions lead to a football player’s suicide? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/did-concussions-lead-to-football.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:09:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Criminallopathhttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/did-concussions-lead-to-football.html#comment-70598 Criminallopath Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:15:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/did-concussions-lead-to-a-football-players-suicide.html#comment-70598 Correlation does not equal causation nor does the provided history necessarily encompass the underlying mechanism for the condition at hand. It will be interesting to see how the study was designed and how the authors were able to control for depression associated with the simple ending of the careers of these football players (a task that they have focused their lives on for a substantial period of time) and the incumbent loss of the limelight. Correlation does not equal causation nor does the provided history necessarily encompass the underlying mechanism for the condition at hand. It will be interesting to see how the study was designed and how the authors were able to control for depression associated with the simple ending of the careers of these football players (a task that they have focused their lives on for a substantial period of time) and the incumbent loss of the limelight.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/01/did-concussions-lead-to-football.html#comment-70586 Anonymous Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/01/did-concussions-lead-to-a-football-players-suicide.html#comment-70586 It is a leap to conclude that: cerebreal atrophy that must necessarily have been caused by a distant history of presumed repetitive closed-head injury with brain trauma; major depression that must necessarily have been the result of cerebral atrophy; suicide that must necessarily have been the result of intractable depression.<br/><br/>Sorry, but the conclusions beg proof. But the forensic pathology people, especially in Pittsburgh, love the flamboyant public conclusions. Dr. Cyril Wecht would be proud. It is a leap to conclude that: cerebreal atrophy that must necessarily have been caused by a distant history of presumed repetitive closed-head injury with brain trauma; major depression that must necessarily have been the result of cerebral atrophy; suicide that must necessarily have been the result of intractable depression.

Sorry, but the conclusions beg proof. But the forensic pathology people, especially in Pittsburgh, love the flamboyant public conclusions. Dr. Cyril Wecht would be proud.

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