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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about dementia pugilistica and death from dementia pugilistica.
Meaning of dementia pugilistica
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, dementia pugilistica:
(a)          means a chronic brain disorder involving disabling cognitive, motor and behavioural impairments, occurring in individuals with a history of repeated blows to the head; and
(b)          excludes encephalopathy resulting from a single episode of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury.
            Note 1: Typical clinical features of dementia pugilistica include cognitive deficits (such as impairments of memory, attention and executive function), motor deficits (such as spasticity, tremor, loss of coordination, gait instability and slurred speech), emotional dysregulation (such as mood disturbance, anxiety and aggression) and personality changes.
            Note 2: blows to the head is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.
Death from dementia pugilistica
(3)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, dementia pugilistica, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's dementia pugilistica.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 - Dictionary.