Copyright © 2015 by Jeanne Marie Laskas
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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Cambridge University Press for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Aftermath of Boxing” by J.A.N. Corsellis, C. J. Bruton, and Dorothy Freeman-Browne from Psychological Medicine, vol. 3, issue 3, August 1973, pp. 270–303, copyright © 1973 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission.
Portions of this book have appeared, in different form, in GQ.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Laskas, Jeanne Marie
Concussion / Jeanne Marie Laskas.
pages cm
“A Random House Trade Paperback Original”—T.p. verso.
ISBN 978-0-8129-8757-7 (acid-free paper)—ISBN 978-0-8129-9808-5 (eBook)
1. Brain—Concussion. 2. Sports injuries. 3. Head—Wounds and injuries. I. Title.
RC394.C7L37 2015
617.5'1044—dc23 2015020171
eBook ISBN 9780812998085
Book design by Victoria Wong, adapted for eBook
The motion picture Concussion is based on the GQ article “Game Brain” by Jeanne Marie Laskas, published September 2009.
Cover design: Fort
Cover photograph: © Tom Pannell/Corbis
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