I’m supposed to be in my prime.” Thursday the 29-year-old Kish became one of four Canadian women to donate their brains to Toronto Western Hospital’s Canadian Concussion Centre to further research on the effect of trauma on women’s brains. Article Continued BelowBefore Thursday, the Canadian Concussion Centre had collected 44 brains of deceased athletes — all men. But the centre’s director, Dr. Charles Tator, pointed out that to advance concussion research means finding a broader cross-section of specimens, which in turns mean including the brains of female athletes in various aspects of research. “Maybe this will provide a significant breakthrough.” Campbell-Pascall said she was skeptical when she first learned last year that concussion researchers hoped to focus on the brains of female athletes. Solving that discrepancy requires involving more female athletes in short-term and long-term research, he said.

Source: thestar May 10, 2018 15:22 UTC