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Athletes and dementia: brain researcher and ice-hockey star Dr Helen Murray's mission to find the missing link

Joanna Wane
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Athletes and dementia: brain researcher and ice-hockey star Dr Helen Murray's mission to find the missing link
Dr Helen Murray, a neuroscientist at Auckland University's Centre for Brain Research. Photo / Michael Craig

Neuroscientist Helen Murray — captain of our national women's ice hockey team — talks to Joanna Wane about her groundbreaking research into long-term brain injuries from contact sports and why it won't stop her playing the game.

It's the final game of the final weekend of the 2020 NZ Women's

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