Professor Dominic Rowe

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Triple M Rocks Footy NRL · Sunday Sin Bin | Brent Read Addresses His “Apology”, The Tigers Crisis & The Dogs Season Is Over! · 12 Jul 2026 podcast

So 90% of motor neurone disease like Carl was sporadic and sporadic motor neurone disease in my opinion is an environmental disease.

Well, we need to redouble our efforts in to identify what's going on in our environment.

And, you know, two weeks ago, New South Wales became the first jurisdiction in the world to make motor neurone disease a notifiable disease.

So, you know, you would think that a disease that kills you under two years from diagnosis, so the mean survival in motor neurone disease is just 22 months.

And you would think that a disease that is uniformly fatal would gain the complete attention of regulatory authorities.

But it's only last month, New South Wales became the first jurisdiction in the whole world to make motor neurone disease a notifiable disease.

And you say, okay, well, so what?

What are we going to do with that information?

Well,

Identifying who has motor neuron disease will enable us to try and identify the cause or causes.

And there are multiple things that occur in our environment that not only make us susceptible to motor neuron disease, but also trigger the disease.

So, you know, we know that people who play concussive sport like rugby league, rugby union, soccer, American football, that they have a slightly increased risk of

getting motor neurone disease now that's not to say that you know playing rugby league causes motor neurone disease it doesn't and and we know that the benefits of sport far outweigh the risks but what is it in our environment that in addition to the susceptibility of concussion

So we know concussion makes our brains vulnerable to a whole host of things.

And there's recently been a lot of attention on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which is the CTE, if you like, from repetitive head injury.

But, you know, in addition to CTE, the deceleration injuries to your brain make your brain more vulnerable to stuff in our environment.

And

We strongly suspect that there are multiple causes in our environment that actually damages these beautiful cells in our brain that we call motor neurons.

And so potentially this disease, we can prevent it if we identify what causes it.

But, you know, in addition, identifying what the cause of the disease is unpicks the mechanism.

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