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Experts: "Concussion" claims are exaggerated

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2010, file photo, Dr. Bennet Omalu, left, co-director of the Brain Injury Research Institute at West Virginia University, talks with Dr. Ira R. Casson, a neurologist and former co-chairman of the NFL Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee, before a House Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Legal Issues Relating to Football Head Injuries, Part II" in Detroit. In the trailer for the movie Concussion, Will Smith, portraying Omalu, says: I found a disease that no one has ever seen. It s a claim that forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu, has himself made for years, often even giving a detailed description about how he came to name that disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy.