One type of brain trauma caused by head impacts isconcussion, a mild form of brain injury that can cause confusion, blurred vision,nausea, headaches, and other symptoms that usually go away within a short amount of time. Less severe hits to the head also may contribute to CTE. People who ...
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
” Many of those posts are here, under theCTEtag. Incredibly, the NFL has done little to stop the carnage, perhaps because seriously addressing the inherent damage to brains caused by a necessarily violent sport would end football as we know it, and that would cost owners, TV networks, ...
CTE, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, is caused by repetitive head trauma and detected by a distinctive stain for a protein called 'tau' in autopsied brain tissue. While the number of diagnosed patients is only in the hundreds, the cultural footprint of the disease in North America is ...
As correspondent Sharyn Alfonsireports this week on 60 Minutes,some veterans' brains are affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, caused by repeated blows to the head. CTE is the same disease that's rocking the football world. This summer, neuropathologist Dr. Ann McKee discovered ...
I drafted a letter to the apartment managers. In it, I recapped what happened in the past, including The Leprechaun knocking on my door right before New Year’s because I had dropped a bottle of lotion on the floor, because it had “caused a huge ruckus” (like that’s the same as...
Evidence is mounting that football players risk more than bruises and broken bones; the repeated head injuries and concussions many pro athletes suffer can lead to (CTE). The debilitating disease is marked by depression, dementia, and other Alzheimer’s-like symptoms. ...
Open Document ALS and CTE are much more than just the Ice Bucket Challenge or being hit in the head. ALS stands for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which affects the brain and spinal cord. Similarly, CTE is a brain disease caused by brain trauma....
“As a Company, we are pleased that the FDA is open to our parameters for classifying CTE while patients are pre-mortem,” saidTimothy Dixon, President and CEO of the Company. “Based on the experiences o...
CTE is a degenerative brain disease caused by concussions and other repeat brain trauma. The disease can only be diagnosed in autopsy, but there have been reports of emotional changes and Alzheimer's-like symptoms in some athletes prior to their posthumous diagnoses. The disease has been found ...