or CTE. People with CTE suffer from changes in their mood and behavior that begin appearing in their 30s or 40s, followed by problems with thinking and memory that can, in some cases, even result in dementia.
Research underway at the Center for the Study ofChronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)at the University of Boston’s School of Medicine has revealed permanent brain damage in the brains of retired NFL football players who had been diagnosed with multiple concussions. This research is the first of ...
In2017, CTE was found to have been implicated in the deaths of 99% of the 111 deceased former NFL players examined by scientists. That jaw-dropping study was echoed last week when researchers diagnosed CTE in345 of 376former NFL players, living and dead, including “former Kansas City Chiefs...
In court filings, NHL commissioner,Gary Bettman asserted, “the science has not advanced to the point where causation determinations can be responsibly made.” The league unsuccessfully sought production of documentsfrom the Boston University CTE Centerto discredit current research on the link between ...
one CTE case in 164 autopsies, and that one person with CTE had played college football.[1]The NFL acknowledged a link between playing American football and being diagnosed with CTE in 2016, after denying such a link for over a decade and arguing that players’ symptoms had other causes ...
Dr. Faden and Dr. Loane also say that there has been too much emphasis on a specific diagnosis known aschronic traumatic encephalopathy(CTE), the set of symptoms and pathology that has been found in some former professional football players. They argue that this may deflect focus from other ...