Word: pugilistica
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...high school players. In each one, it's simple to spot a protein called tau, which defines a debilitating disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Common symptoms of CTE include sudden memory loss, paranoia and depression during middle age. The disease is also known as dementia pugilistica, or punch-drunk syndrome, because until recently the overwhelming majority of its victims were boxers. Not anymore. Researchers like McKee have found a deep and disturbing association between CTE and America's most popular sport. (Watch a video of what football can do to the brain...
...been in the boxing ring for 30 years, and I've taken a lot of punches," a subdued Ali said at a news conference. "So there is a great possibility something could be wrong." But the doctors denied that Ali was suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain...
With his shuffling gait, slurred speech and foggy memory, the punch-drunk boxer is a stock character in movies and fiction, a mainstay of many a stand-up comic's nightclub routines. But there is nothing funny about the condition some doctors call "dementia pugilistica." Doctors have known for years that a hard blow to the head can slam the jelly-like brain against the rigid skull and cause permanent damage. Now a trio of British researchers has documented just how serious-and how widespread among boxers-this damage is likely to be. In a study published last month...
...factory worker in his native Fiume, was the boxer the crowd had come chiefly to see. No. 1 amateur bantamweight of the world, his reputation of being invincible was backed up by over 100 victories in European matches in the last three years. Under Italy's Federazione Pugilistica, Sergo, like most Fascist fighters, had received top-notch instruction, had the benefit of year-round competition, including performances all over Europe, where amateur boxing is even more popular than it is in the U. S. Chicago fans, remembering well the drubbing he gave their favorite, Frank Kainrath, in the international...
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