Paper cited: Grashow, R et al. “Perceived Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Suicidality in Former Professional Football Players” JAMA Neurology DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3083
Authorship: In addition to Zafonte, Grashow, and Baggish, other Mass General Brigham authors include Grant L. Iverson, Frank E. Speizer, and Daniel H. Daneshvar. Additional authors include Douglas P. Terry, Heather DiGregorio, Inana Dairi, Cheyenne Brown, Paula S. Atkeson, , Alicia J. Whittington, LeRoy Reese, Jonathan H. Kim, Niki Konstantinides, Herman A. Taylor, and Marc G. Weisskopf.
Disclosures: Baggish has received funding from the National Institute of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA), and the American Heart Association and receives compensation for his role as team cardiologist from the US Olympic Committee/US Olympic Training Centers, US Soccer, US Rowing, the New England Patriots, the Boston Bruins, the New England Revolution, and Harvard University. Zafonte reported receiving royalties from Springer/Demos publishing for serving as coeditor of the text Brain Injury Medicine; serving on the scientific advisory board of Myomo Inc, and onecare.ai Inc; evaluating patients in the Massachusetts General Hospital Brain and Body–TRUST Program, which is funded by the NFLPA; and receiving grants from the NIH. Grashow received grant funding from the NFLPA. Additional author disclosures can be found in the paper.
Funding: The Football Players Health Study is supported by the NFLPA. The NFLPA did not contribute to the design and conduct of the study; collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data; preparation, review, or approval of the manuscript; and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. This work received support from Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center (National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Award UM1TR004408) and financial contributions from Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard University and its affiliated academic healthcare centers, or the National Institutes of Health.
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