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Dr Daneshvar is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, Chair of physical medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation, and Co-Director of Sports Concussion at Mass General Brigham, whilst also a long-time collaborator with the Boston University CTE Centre. Lastly, Dr Daneshvar earned the National Neurotrauma Society's 2024 Rising Star Award, whilst publishing more than 100 papers and being cited over 18,000 times by his academic peers. One of those articles is “Prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at death in National Football League players: retrospective population-based cohort study, 2008-21” The topic of today’s conversation.

01:15 - Journey into Neurosciences and Brain Injury

02:50 – What is and Difference Between Concussion and CTE

05:16 - “Prevalence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at Death in National Football League Players: Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study, 2008-21” What are the major findings? How was it conducted…. Etc

09:10 – Extrapolation of CTE in Populations & Correlation Against Death Certificates

12:13 – Stage’s of CTE

15:10 - Accelerometer Data as a Predictor of CTE vs Career Length

18:10 - Significant Challenges in Conducting Studies Around CTE

23:10 – Risk Reduction

27:40 - How Can we Help Support Dr Daneshvar Research

Dr Daniel Daneshvar

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YF2omqkAAAAJ&hl=en

Prevalence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy at death in National Football League players: retrospective population-based cohort study, 2008-21 : https://www.bmj.com/content/394/bmj-2026-100418