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From the NFL to Studying Brain Health in Black Athletes
The following is a summary of a story that originally appeared on the School of Medicine website. Robert W. Turner II knows football from the inside, having played defensive back in the NFL. Today, he is a medical sociologist at Duke University School of Medicine and one of the most active voices calling on Black men to participate in brain health research. The need is urgent. Black Americans are about twice as likely as white Americans to develop dementia and Alzheimer’s, and researchers still do not know exactly why. “You can’t do the science if
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