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More than 40% of deceased young people who had been susceptible to repeated head injuries while playing contact sports had evidence on autopsy of the degenerative brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a recent study. The authors of the study in JAMA Neurology cautioned ...
These football players gave it up after high school but the damage was seemingly done. Now, their families look for answers about chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Strzelczyk's family donated his brain to the Brain Injury Research Institute. Dr. Ronald Hamilton of the University of Pittsburgh told the New York Times, "If I didn't know anything about this case and I looked at the slides, I would have asked, 'Was this patient a boxer?'" Terry Long...
Brain injuries can be difficult to diagnose, and there's a wide range of symptoms. This new study says many former football players are worried about how the game has affected their brains. A third of former professional players believe they have football-related brain damage, according to the...
The first research into the link between football and traumatic brain injury was published in 2005. Since then, the science has become impossible to ignore. In 2017, The Journal of the American Medical Associationpublished the resultsof the autopsies of the brains of 111 deceased former N.F.L...
The Pro Football Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers died in 2002. During an autopsy on Webster’s body, forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu identified a new kind of brain injury he coinedchronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. ...
because he had a disability (traumatic brain injury from serving in the Navy) and they have to “accommodate” him –though I’m not sure why his TBI overrides my disabilities.Also, let’s face it: no one has ever called the cops on me for being violent and threatening, because I’m...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), degenerative brain disease typically associated with repetitive trauma to the head. CTE originally was known as dementia pugilistica, a term introduced in the 1920s and ’30s to describe mental and motor deficits a
Without that, the study lacks an overall estimate on the risk of participation in football and its effects on the brain. Out of 202 deceased former football players total – a combination of high school, college and professional players – CTE was neuropathologically diagnosed in 177, the ...