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With football season underway, media and news outlets are sure to publish articles discussing the head injury epidemic that has loomed over the sport for decades. However, while many may believe that brain injuries like Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) are exclusively a football problem, resear...
Recently, American football has been associated with an increased risk of CTE. The list of former NFL players with signs of CTE at autopsy is shocking (see below) (17): It seems pretty difficult nowadays to deny a link between CTE and repeated traumatic brain injury associated with sports li...
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that University of Pennsylvania (Penn) football co-captain Owen Thomas was suffering from mild stages of the degenerative brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), w...
the effects of sports concussion on brain metabolism using 1H-MR Spectroscopy by comparing a group of 10 non-concussed athletes with a group of 10 concussed athletes of the same age (mean: 22.5 years) and education (mean: 16 years) within both the acute and chronic post-injury phases. All...
Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players Interview with Ann C. McKee, MD, author of Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football
(CTE), has been identified that is believed to be primarily a sequela of repeated mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), often referred to as concussion, that occurs in athletes participating in contact sports (e.g. boxing, football, football, rugby, soccer, ice hockey) or in military ...
In the context of recent high-profile athlete suicides, a surge of scientific literature regarding CTE has focused on football players, other contact sportspersons, and combat Veterans. The aim of this review is to analyze the current literature on CTE, to juxtapose CTE literature with the more...
Retrospective case studies have reported clear neuroinflammatory activation in the brains of former football players who had more than one injury in brain regions such as the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, para hippocampal cortex, supramarginal gyrus, amygdala, and temporal pole86,87. A recent retrospe...
Methods: We performed a consecutive case series brain autopsy study on six retired professional football players from the Canadian Football League with histories of multiple concussions and significant neurological decline. Results: All participants had progressive neurocognitive decline prior to death; ...