thumper had a neurological disorder. he couldn't walk and this is what he looked like. back legs not really paralyzed. basically thumper dragged himself around. he could take one or two steps but kept falling over. he was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder and doctors pretty much said that's the way he's going to be his entire life, there really no cure. >> look at him. >> it breaks your little heart. >> folks over at pat collective tv to put this video together to show us thumper's progression. thumper was fostered and the women that work with thumper believed that there was more to this cat than just a life of dragging himself around, so they constructed a custom-made walker and as soon as they put thumper into this thing he started scampering around. they noticed after a few weeks of regular therapy like this, they noticed thumper wanted to shed his contraption and believe it or not -- >> no way! >> -- contrary to what doctors thought, thumper now looks like this and looks like this. he's still a little wobbly which kind of adds to his character and he's pre

he was not an expert in neurology and had no background in brain research. >> he went to a school inra. dr. pellman is not a neurosurgeon, he's not a neuro-anything. he's a rheumatologist. >> putting a rheumatologist in the head of a committee that arguably was going to have more influence over brain research than any particular institution in the country at the time was, i think a lot of people felt, surprising. >> narrator: most of pellman's committee was made up of nfl loyalists. nearly half the members were team doctors. >> if you're going to put together a blue ribbon committee to study brain trauma, it should have as its chair somebody who has that as a background: either a neurologist, neurosurgeon, neuropathologist, preferably a clinician. >> narrator: for years, pellman's committee would insist they were studying the problem, that the danger from concussions was overblown. >> the way the nfl handled this was for 15 years to do research that looks awfully like it was designed to say that the league was okay in doing what it was doing, which wasn't much, to protect players fro

they say from the neurological damage there's no way i live past 55.ghter] >> you got three years left, my friend. >> you're going to die! [laughter] i can't... i can't... don't let me. >> will ferrell, david koechner, paul rudd and steve carell. [cheering and applause] >> thank you so much. you're beautiful. thank you. thank you so much. you're beautiful. look at that. look at that. you're beautiful. thank you, guys. oh. thank you. thank you so much. oh, boy. >> jon:, no no, no. guys, guys, i don't know what to say. i mean, i have to say... i mean, i did not expect that you would take all the stuff out of the green room and then bring it out hire as though it was a gifted, and i just thank you because that was really... that was like would have been thoughtful. so thank you. >> the least we could do. >> no, appreciate it. >> the very least. >> seems really cluttered in there. >> yeah, no, no, no. i get that. that was really nice. >> and we asked, which are your favorite items. >> jon: i love, i always say, oh, my god, the place where the straws are. >

>> now we'll look at what happens neurologically.ut on 266 censors on my head and took a hard test to determine it. let's take a look. it's game day at memorial stadium, the huskers are taking on illinois. this stadium house is more than 90,000 plus fans, it's home to a concussion. >> we have cutting-edge techniques in the facility where the athletes are training. >> dennis is the director of the new center for brain, biology and behaviour. >> why is it hard to figure out what a cop kugs is? >> now it's scribed in terms of -- described in terms of simply torches head ache. sleep, memory functions. we are unable to identify what the disruption is. >> i want to put the towel on the neck. >> this tap, a denser ray inselfa la gram or dee is a piece of technology used to unlock the mysteries. >> i'll call this the science acto pus. >> the cap has 256 electrodes in it picking up on currents going over the scalp that are generated from the brain. the brain waves have information about your memory processies, decision making, speed of proces

>> and even if you're not aware of that, that develops a neurological habit that you can take advantage, close your eyes or think about changing the radio station or talk to your kids. habits -- >> stephen: so i've -- i get a pleasure response when i've achieved this task? >> absolutely. and you anticipate that task. there was a study that was done that said about 40% to 45% of everything we do everyday is a habit. you might not be aware of most of them. >> stephen: those kind of habits, isn't that like an addiction? don't you need a higher and higher dose every time? >> (laughs). >> stephen: shouldn't i get a longer and longer driveway? (laughter) >> absolutely. >> stephen: or back out of my driveway on heroin? >> that might do the trick. >> stephen: so 40% to 45% of what the average person tkphuz a day is out of habit, we're not thinking about what we're doing? >> this is amazing because it lets your brain -- evolutionarily this has allowed us to succeed. our brain can take patterns and make them automatic which means we have time to invent fire or spears or video games or something l

almost all neurological damage done by football is done to children. youth players or high school players are legally children. 40 to 60,000 concussions per year at the high school level. the figure in youth sports is harder to determine but it's in the tens of thousands and a lot of the research is showing it's not spectacular knockout hits that you might see on "sportscenter" that cause most of the damage. it's the show accumulation of lots of minor hits and what's happened, especially in the last 10, 20 years, the number of kids playing youth football has gone way up, the number of states that allow year-round high school football has gone way up and that means the slow acouplelation of minor hits to people's heads has gone way up. it can't be good and more and more boys are end anding more and more time bashing each other in the head. host: what about drugs? you write about open adds in your book. something called tordol. how does that spit into the sports world? guest: i think painkiller use is at a much higher level in the nfl that people realize

crouse is analyzing data but preliminary findings suggest that music may enhance the neurological development of kids in the harmony project who were behind in school. >> you can document that kids who have had musical education now have nervous systems that respond more accurately and precisely to meaningful elements in language. >> in science i had very low grades. when i started learning about music, being able to practice and concentrating, my grades have gone higher. i would concentrate in my music. it would be something to be focused on and not be bothered by anyone. i was using that in my homework. science is now one of my best subjects. >> do you like it now? >> i love it. >> what do you say to those who say the kids are listening to music all the time. why doesn't that work? >> no one ever got fit watching spectator sports. plugging in and listening to music, it doesn't fix your brain. doing it transforms your nervous system. it makes you basically a better learner. >> who is to say that arts education in general, whether it's dance or painting might be as beneficial as music in term

. >> it's like a pacemaker here, a neurological pacemaker. wires go offer the head, through the skull, deep into the brain, into part of it which is producing dopamine and there it sends a regular signal - a regular amount of dopamine and here is where my weak spot is. i was bad at maths and science. >> here you are depending on both. >> yes. here i am, you know, talking about something - an operation that is - it's mysterious, actually. maybe i'm making - putting myself down too hard. i will always love that. because in a way that it's really not very well-known, exactly why this works as well as it does. i mean, there's so much study to be done on the brain that in 50 years i can well imagine this not being the situation at all. >> the treatment is so general, the signal sent to the brain is blanket. >> they are different targets in the brain to aim for. one you aim for a person depending on his personality and the skills, word skills or search and memory recall. so you can - so one person will have one target, another person another. since

chairman and professor of neurology and chief of robotics surgery there. i'm talking mark segal. he is also the author of the inner pulse with the secret code of sickness and health. we will do a lot of unlocking of secrets today. >> great to see you. >> we will start with a bold new recommendation from the fda that occurred this past week and they are asking doctors to cut down on the amount of acetominophen. what does this mean and how dangerous is it? we are talking about liver damage. >> this is important medical news. the fda is reminding most. we are talking to doctors now and do not prescribe any of the medications that is more than 325 milligrams mostly because of liver toxicity. they gave a warning to the manufacturers that half of them went on with the flow and we have medications out there. whether the purpose is vicodin, they all have acetominophen. this therapy that a lot of people don't realize has it and over-the-counter medications. this warns has nothing to do with over the counter. that's going to come in soon. people have headaches and body aches and flu. they

chairman and professor of neurology and chief of robotics surgery there. i'm talking mark segal. he is also the author of the inner pulse with the secret code of sickness and health. we will do a lot of unlocking of secrets today. >> great to see you. >> we will start with a bold new recommendation from the fda that

retardants chlorinated tris and fire master 550, which may be linked to dna damage, cancer, or neurological defects, continue to be widely used in polyurethane foam in a number of common children's' products. >> so i think that the whole issue of flame retardants is one for which there is some concern, and i think the real question we should ask, and maybe we need to ask this more broadly of other kinds of chemicals as well, is, do we really need them? >> when it comes to endocrine disruptors, one of the most toxic places is your home. the silent spring institute conducted the first household endocrine disruptor exposure study in 2004. their focus was cape cod. >> we went into 120 homes on the cape and tested air and dust samples and women's urine, looking for 89 hormone disruptors. and we found 67 of them. >> we were surprised to find pcbs in house dust and in indoor air in these suburban homes. >> we see some links between certain ones of these pcbs and breast cancer diagnosis years later. >> we measured 27 different pesticides. we've measured 44 different flame retardants. in two thirds

will fulfill its promise to compensate every currently retired player who has or will develop a neurological condition such as dementia or parkinson's disease. lawyers for the plaintiffs and the n.f.l. said independent actuaries and medical experts had endorsed the terms of the settlement. but the lawyers refuse to share any of their data with the public to help substantiate how they arrived at the $765 million figure, and there is growing displeasure among plaintiffs who have not been allowed to see the data, either. still to come: in traders unplugged.... are the guys buying into the hype of one of the hottest stocks on wall street. plus... how some up and coming film makers are getting their big break at the superbowl. and we are sneaking a peak at some "cute and controversial superbowl ads" that's next with bill moller! big money, big stakes at the big game. super bowl sunday - the biggest night in football and the biggest night in advertising when companies drop a cool 4-million dollars just to get their super bowl spots in the big show. which ones will we still be talking about the day

>>we're living through a golden age of understanding the neurology of habit formation.asically learned is that every habit has 3 parts: there's a cue which is like a trigger for an automatic behavior to start, and then the routine which is the behavior itself, then finally a reward which is how our brain learns to remember that for the future. if you can diagnose the cues and rewards around a habit, then you have the ability to change it or create new ones. >>can you give us an example of how that might be? >>sure! so i had this bad cookie habit when i started writing this book. i would eat a cookie every afternoon. when i was talking to a neurologist i asked him about it and we figured out the cue was the time of day. it usually hit about 3:15 in the afternoon. but then i had to figure out what the reward was. i thought it was cookies and they said no. cookies are like 12 rewards all in one tasty little bundle. is it that you're hungry? in which case you can have an apple instead. or do you need the energy from sugar? in which case you can have a cup of coffee. what i

. >>> a new study in the journal of neurology found people who have higher levels of omega 3 fatty acids had larger brain volumes later in life. they found the difference was equivalent to preserving up to two years of brain health. a lot of the increased brain matter was in areas that play a key role in memory. >>> okay, time for the facebook question of the morning. the average american eats 23 pounds of this every year. is it a, candy, b, cheese, c, french fries? go to our facebook page. give us your answer and tell us why. we'll share some of your comments throughout the morning. >> this week when you answer the question of the morning, you have a chance to win four tickets to the monster jam at verizon center this friday and saturday. we're going to choose a winner every day this week. thanks for wa king >>> we're looking at temperatures in the single digits in many areas. 15 at national airport. one now at dulles. yeah, very, very cold. we've got clear to partly cloudy skies now. we are going to see partly to mostly cloudy skies as we head through midday. i want you to watch the li

chairman and professor of neurology and chief of robotics surgery there. i'm talking mark segal.f the inner pulse with the secret code of sickness and health. we will do a lot of unlocking of secrets today. >> great to see you. >> we will start with a bold new recommendation from the fda that occurred

paul fisher who is head of pediatric neurology at stanford and he found specifically some things i want to just relay. she has no reflexes. her pupils are not responding to light. she cannot breathe on her own. and they did scans and found that there's no evidence of blood flow to her brain. there's also no lek electrical activity on eeg. let me ask you first, do you think there's any room for misdiagnosis or error in diagnosis here? >> sanjay, in this setting, there's absolutely no chance of any kind of misdiagnosis. this is a black-and-white situation. >> any chance that she could have some sort of recovery which is, you know, obviously what her family is hoping and praying for? >> i understand what they're hoping and praying for, but there's absolutely no chance here for jahi to ever survive the brain injury itself. >> the intersection between just the human tragedy of this and obviously the clinical diagnosis is tough. i mean, you deal with this a fair amount, i imagine. what do you tell families who are in a situation like this? >> i've done it many, many times, sanjay. and what yo

soon be able to get rid of all of you to say we're hoping for a positive outcome she has had a neurological examination and everything is fine samurais again revealed no damage . the condition of another girl another injured in the volgograd terror attack and nine year old olga is also positive she is no longer in a life threatening condition she's showing very good signs of recovery and we also know that sixty more people more than sixty people are still in hospitals all across the country after the volgograd bombing thirty eight of them are still in volgograd and twenty two in moscow and one more in st petersburg and certainly we are keeping track and following all the details and developments on that story. controversial cryptocurrency bitcoin is hitting new highs again burchill loni's value has swung past the one thousand dollar mark after an online game company said it would accept it points from its customers all the details on the corner the latest success on r.t.e. dot com. also online for you a four month old giant panda cub in the u.s. has made its debut before the media we've got

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he studied under the named neurology walter freeman. if you have heard of him, it's probably because he's the man who introduced lo bot my in the united. it has a rather sinister reparation. much is well deserved. at the time you have to understand in the 30s it was seen of a package of bold psychiatric treatment trying to -- when he serve as a psychiatric treating mental exa carolty at the front line. i'm going read you about what the job entailed in world war ii. after two years of brutal conflict the casualty remarkably high. officials came to terms with the fact that all men pushed hard enough in combat had a breaking point. in november of 1943 they arranged if are single psychiatric to join each tuition and action. they were responsible for the mental health of troops over the full course of service. they were lone protectors of the mind. helmet aside for every 15,000 active soldiers. during combat the when treat bid the combat psychiatric quickly near the battle field, was a heavy dose of sedative and simple reassurance, recovery

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the journal "neurology" shows how alcohol, even beer, wine, speeds up memory loss. but it seems only if you drink a certain amount. so, how much? the surprising results of the study, now, from abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: about now, you may have begun to pour that end of the day drink. a glass of wine or beer, or perhaps something even a little stronger. but on this night, a word of caution. british researchers tracked a group of 5,000 middle-aged men for a decade. they tallied how much they drank each night and gave them all memory tests. the results were clear. the heavier the drinkers experienced a more rapid memory decline later in life, than light drinkers. in other words, a 65-year-old could have the memory of a 71-year-old. the tipping point might come when you start feeling tipsy. those who had more than 2 1/2 drinks a day were the ones who had greater memory loss. it also affects women's memory. what effect does drinking too much alcohol have on the brain? >> too much alcohol can have many effects on the brain. including being toxic to brain cells. or in

the general neurology shows how alcohol, even wine, speeds up memory loss. but only over a certain amount. the surprise results of the study from news reporter matt gulen. >> at the end of the day, you may have poured that glass of wine, a beer or perhaps something even stronger. tonight a word of caution. british researchers tracked 5,000 middle-aged men for a decade. they told them how much they drank each night and gave them memory tests. the results were clear. the heavier drinkers experienced a more rapid memory decline later in life than light drinkers. in other words, a 65-year-old could have the memory of a 71-year-old. the tipping point coming when you might start feeling tipsy. those who had more than two and a half drinks a day were the ones who had greater memory loss. experts say the booze also impacts women's memory, having a number of long-term effects in your brain. so what effect does drinking too much alcohol have on the brain? >> too much alcohol could have many effects on the brain, including being toxic to brain cells or increase the ris

warning out now about the journal of neurology showing how alcohol of all types speeds up memory lossnts. we sort it all out. >> reporter: you may have poured a glass of wine or beer, perhaps something even stronger. but a word of caution, british researchers tracked a group of 5,000 middle aged men for a decade. they tallied how much they drank each night and gave them all memory tests. the results were clear. the heavier drinkers experienced a more rapid memory decline later in life than light drinkers. in other words, a 65-year-old could have the memory of a 71-year-old. the tipping point coming when you might start feeling tipsy. those who had more than two-and-a-half drinks a day were the one who is had greater memory loss. experts say the booze also impacts women's memory, having a number of long-term effects on your brain. so what effect does drinking too much alcohol have on the brain? >> too much alcohol could have many affects on the brain, including being toxic to brain cells. or increase the risk of stroke. >> reporter: now the research says drinking all of this alcohol ev

when there's consensus, medical consensus that there is no brain activity whatsoever, that's a neurologicalinition of death. the consensus of ethicists, philosophers recognize to be true. it's so hard to say this because the sentiment of the mother to keep her alive is so beautiful, to respect life. but doctors tell us she has died. her soul is now in heaven. >> so you believe that's actually happened already. >> from the information we know from the doctors. of course, if that's misinformimi misinformation, that's another thing. >> five doctors have now examined her. two or three at the hospital where she was, two or three independently the family hired. here's what the mom has said in a quote. she has said that she can't play god. in other words, she believes god will deem when her child is ready to move on. you say? >> god has already done that. faith helps us to let go. it's easy for me to say -- it's not easy, but it's easier for me to say it from this perspective than if i were in theirs. but her friends need to get around her and say faith and science are not in contradiction. faith

but from a neurological standpoint, you're going to have some brain trauma. >> narrator: harry carsonying the matter since he retired 25 years ago. >> you know, most people are keyed in on the big hit. but the little mini-concussions are just as dangerous because you might be sustaining six to ten, maybe a dozen of these hits during the course of a game. and if you're going up against top-flight players who are able to perfect those skills of hitting you upside the head or getting hit with a elbow, it's one of those things that at some point you're going to pay for it down the line. >> i really worry about my lineman brothers. i really worry for my running back brothers. i mean, that's the truth. you talk about a nefarious injury, one that you never feel until it's too late. so when i look back over 30 years associated with football, that's the thing that is most alarming to me. >> the way the game is played, i don't see how you can eliminate all of those routine hits that linemen make every play. how do you eliminate them and have the game still be football? >> narrator: for dr. mcke

. >> in the rich countries, it's heart disease, cancer, neurological. you have a few countries that like india where they have both at the same time, that they have middle class people where diabetes is going up. at rates higher than you would expect but they still have huge infectious diseases. they're the runs -- >> rose: go ahead. >> mexico has moved out, infectious disease is very low there. but now they have a obesity level that rivals our own. >> rose: it's very interesting when you thank you about the necessity of bringing out of poverty into the middle class, it brings with it a set of problems. health issues are one, also climate change which affects health too. >> right. so i wouldn't say that the development agenda's the only big problem, i would put it at the top of the list, the equity of everybody being in middle income countries. but boy we better take on these, the health problems of affluence and the environmental problems of affluence but there's enough resources you can put a carbon tax and fund the rnd. they don't have to be competit

six independent neurological exams have confirmed that she's brain dead, which means she's passed awayt context, i think to krystal's point, what that hospital says is when someone has been declared deceased, they don't provide further care. they're under no legal obligation to do so. what you do with what they consider -- and it is hard. it is had to say, but what they consider now a body and not a living human life, is they release the body. what they don't do is provide more care. the biggest problem here that people get very squeamish about is what they try to do to treat the living. if they keep what they consider now a deceased individual in an intensive care unit or in a brain dead assistance unit, et cetera, that's a space that the living can't take. so that process has to be born out. i understand completely how a family would want to do everything they believe possible, even if they may be somewhat misinformed. i think the larger context, though, in the terry schiavo group and other groups are they at times are preying on those people who are in the toughest moments of that k

a number of studies have linked flame retardants to human health concerns such as cancer, neurologicalts and fertility problems. some flame retardants have been banned by the federal government for health concerns, others have been phased out voluntarily by manufacturers. but many remain in use today. worried about the possible health risks, the clems recently purchased a $2,700 flame- retardant-free sofa from ekla home, one of the few manufacturers in the u.s. which makes naturally flame resistant furniture using materials like wool. >> for me, the peace of mind knowing that my children aren't going to be exposed to these toxic flame retardants was enough to pay a bit of a premium on the sofa. >> you probably have flame retardants in your couch, your chair, your office chair, if you have a baby, strollers, high chairs, nursing pillows, little baby positioners, car seats... >> sreenivasan: arlene blum is a visiting scholar in chemistry at the university of california at berkeley, and has been leading the charge to get flame retardants out of homes. she's the founder of the green scienc

our neurology is hard wired to emotionally connect to large numbers of people and to small numbers of people, but actually, really in a caring way, not in a distant way through the media. >> okay, but remember we would always say when i was a kid growing up, it's about home training, right? that child wasn't trained at home. you have poor home training. you saved your best behavior for strangers, right? >> yes. >> but now it seems like people are snapping at people they don't even know. we talked a lot about the so-called knockout game where the goal is allegedly to take out a stranger with a single punch. >> it's terrifying. these are kids that have a sense of injustice and entitlement. and it builds and it builds and they also don't see other people as human beings. >> but that's just bad kids. >> one of the things i worry about a lot is the fact we see this over and over on television. >> there's nobody at home going get your butt in the house, stop doing that, you're going to be grounded. >> absolutely, absolutely. there's a number of things, don, that happen, right, that have som