The Drake Foundation
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Bringing neuroscience to contact sport. We're trying to better understand long-term health issues in sport through research and collaboration.
London, England
Joined May 2015
We were so humbled to see this post from @Tommo33. We admire his bravery and what he’s done to alert the game we all love to the risks which haven’t been properly addressed yet.
I can't thank @jamesjpdrake enough for this painting. He has been an amazing friend and has done so much to make rugby safer. Using his own money. @thedrakefdn Only for the rugby authorities to throw it in his face. As they don't want to hear the truth. #thankyou #braininjury
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RT @jamesjpdrake: Tom Curry has sustained multiple concussions during his rugby career. One in Sept 2024 with Sale Sharks, another in Nov 2…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: We now know that the fundamental brain health issue in collision sports is cumulative intensity of impacts. It’s easy to…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: When you see this film, made almost a decade ago, you wonder how rugby union has continued without fundamental changes in…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: In the 2015 film Concussion, Dr Bennett Omalu uncovered a devastating truth: repeated head trauma in American football ca…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: Warmest congratulations to my friend @DawnAstle9 on her richly deserved MBE for tireless work supporting afflicted player…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: The now-farcical rugby Prem. season needs rethinking. Without marquee players in 2 Int. windows, results are meaningless.…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: Good to see the new Chairman of @WorldRugby has a medical degree and therefore an understanding of brain health. He shoul…
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RT @ChrisNowinski1: It is mind boggling that rugby still thinks it's OK to play on when a player is unconscious. You can have a tough spor…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: The world’s leading experts including Dr Ann McKee and Dr Bennet Omalu agree that the fundamental issue linking contact s…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: '@DavidWalshST in @thetimes speaks for many: contact sport players’ brains need better protection. Our study on 44 young…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: Bennet Omalu b. 30 September 1968 Pathologist who identified chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) as a disease in NFL p…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: - @TelegraphSport reports that the FA considered “To expand [the scope of the inquest] (on ex-footballer Bill Gates who w…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: In 2022 Tom Curry left following concussion against Australia, saying: “My job is to play rugby, I trust the scientists t…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: A BMJ study showed that over 60% of the govt’s. scientific advisory committee on nutrition is industry-funded. I am equal…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: The Drake Foundation-funded HEADING Study has been stuck on a pre-print server for 6 months & 5 neuroscientists are no lo…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: In @BBC Rugby on Trial expert Ann McKee explains that it’s the cumulative impacts that create the problem. Obvious ways t…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: According to @washingtonpost , attorneys promised a “state of the art” process to diagnose former NFL players suffering f…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: With all the hot air expended on brain health in sport, why don’t they get the facts using MRI? Singer Peter Starstedt go…
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RT @jamesjpdrake: Elite rugby, a game I love passionately, is currently unsafe and needs rule changes. It is about time the authorities too…
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