Primal Neuroanthropology© A Neuro-sports Hypothesis By Kenneth B. V. Gross, M.D.

Kenneth Bruce Van Gross, MD announces the “power of a million new ideas,” with the debut of this new sports science book, Primal Neuroanthropology©—A NeuroSports Hypothesis.
In this volume, Van Gross, MD, a seasoned neurologist, board certified internist and author, writes on the origin and immense power of Sports using perspectives from humans’ neurological evolution, growth, development and degeneration to sociological, psychiatric and religious/philosophical domains. He contends that sports gestures, postures, movements and expressions are critical to the primitive consciousness of the sports performer. The film Concussion raised the question: Why is there dementia and depression due to Sports related head injury? As Sports Concussion has become a major public health problem, Primal Neuroanthropology©—A NeuroSports Hypothesis expands on that with the larger inquiry: What is Sports and why do we play it? Derived from an academic presentation by Van Gross, MD at the American Academy of Neurology annual international conference in Toronto, Canada, the book is written in a “Pop Neurology” style just as Dr. Carl Sagan took Astronomy to the wider population. However, Primal Neuroanthropology©—A NeuroSports Hypothesis also will serve as a new chapter in the Neuroscience of Sports for a vast array of interdisciplinary sports world participants/fans, professionals/physicians/healthcare providers to include neurologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, pathologists, philosophers, pediatricians, geriatricians, coaches, teachers, sociologists, theologians, anthropologists, and students in these various arenas.