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18Concussion and youth hockey: It’s time to break the cycle.Canadian Medical Association Journal 183 921-924. 2011.Concussion is a common, serious injury in youth ice hockey, affecting up to 25% of players per season by one estimate. • Bodychecking is a major cause of injury and concussion in hockey, yet some Canadian provinces allow players as young as nine years to engage in bodychecking. • Reducing rates of concussion requires eliminating bodychecking for all except elite hockey players aged 16 years and older, as per the recommendations of the Canadian Academy of Sports and Exercise Medicine.
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123Implications of recent neuroscientific findings in patients with disorders of consciousnessNeuroethics 3 (2): 185-196. 2010.A pressing issue in neuroscience is the high rate of misdiagnosis of disorders of consciousness. As new research on patients with disorders of consciousness has revealed surprising and previously unknown cognitive capacities, the need to develop better and more reliable methods of diagnosing these disorders becomes more urgent. So too the need to expand our ethical and social frameworks for thinking about these patients, to accommodate new concerns that will accompany new revelations. A recent s…Read more
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83The Impact of American Tackle Football-Related Concussion in Youth AthletesAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (4): 48-59. 2011.Postmortem research on the brains of American tackle football players has revealed the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease caused by repeated head trauma. Repeated concussion is a risk factor for CTE, raising ethical concerns about the long-term effects of concussion on athletes at risk for football-related concussion. Of equal concern is that youth athletes are at increased risk for lasting neurocognitive and developmental deficits that can result in…Read more
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35Can they suffer? The ethical priority of quality of life research in disorders of consciousnessBioethica Forum 6 (4): 129-136. 2013.There is ongoing ethical and legal debate about withdrawing life sup- port for patients with disorders of consciousness (DOCs). Frequently fu- eling the debate are implicit assumptions about the value of life in a state of impaired consciousness, and persistent uncertainty about the quality of life (QoL) of these persons. Yet there are no validated methods for assessing QoL in this population, and a significant obstacle to doing so is their inability to communicate. Recent neuroscientific discov…Read more
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35Stable value sets, psychological well-being, and the disability paradox: ramifications for assessing decision making capacity.American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (4): 24-25. 2013.The phenomenon whereby severely disabled persons self-report a higher than expected level of subjective well-being is called the “disability paradox.” One explanation for the paradox among brain injury survivors is “response shift,” an adjustment of one’s values, expectations, and perspective in the aftermath of a life-altering, disabling injury. The high level of subjective well-being appears paradoxical when viewed from the perspective of the non-disabled, who presume that those with severe di…Read more
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37A Legal Fiction with Real ConsequencesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (8): 34-36. 2014.No abstract
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10Encyclopedia of Bioethics: Abortion II: Contemporary Ethical and Legal Aspects: A. Ethical PerspectivesGale Cengage Learning. 2004.
L. Syd M Johnson
SUNY Upstate Medical University
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SUNY Upstate Medical UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Biomedical Ethics |
Death and Dying |
Neuroethics |
Medical Ethics |
Animal Ethics |
Animal Rights |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
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