Thank you to all of you for being here and for bearing with us on a day like today.
It's great to have researchers here. It's piqued my interest on a number of questions and aspects that I'd like to hear about. I'm trying to figure out where I want to start.
A number of you talked about brain degeneration, and some of the side effects that we might see, with mental health issues or possible CTE, etc.
I'm wondering whether there is research out there now compared to my day, and I go back to the days when I was.... I could talk about my undergraduate degree. I studied under Dr. Pat Bishop at the University of Waterloo. He was a mentor of mine. We did research where we were dropping hockey helmets, ancient contraptions.
Dr. Tator, I can see you smiling. I know you're very well aware of this information.
Nowadays, we're seeing a lot more new information. Ms. Curran, you mentioned about virtual imaging. These are all interesting aspects that I haven't kept up with, and I'd love to hear a little more about it. For example, on the issue of looking at this protein, the tau, obviously this is a new study. It's obviously done when someone has passed away. We can't look for that product today. It's after the fact.
How do you take all of that information and correlate that with a sports concussion?
I'll throw the question out to Dr. Tator first and then go from there.