34 NFL Players Had Brain Disease
Excerpt:Dr. Ann McKee, professor of Neurology and Pathology of Boston University School of Medicine and co-director of the Veterans Affairs Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, inspects a brain in the Bedford Veteran Medical Center. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe/Getty Images)
On the heels of the most up to date NFL suicide, researchers announced today that 34 NFL users whose brain were studied struggled with CTE, a degenerative brain illness caused by duplicated hits to the head that leads to confusion, depression and, eventually, dementia. The study was released just days after the murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. It's not yet known just what triggered Belcher's action, but they mirror various other NFL users who have committed suicide. Specialists at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy released the biggest case series study of CTE to date, according to Boston Medical Center.
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0 | Clark Hunt said Sunday that Belcher was "a player who had not had a long concussion history," ... |
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-0.0984803 | "While it remains unknown what level of exposure to brain trauma is required to trigger CTE, there is no available evidence that occasional, isolated or well-managed concussions give rise to CTE," one of the study's co-authors, Dr. Robert Cantu, said ... |
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Organization: Boston University School of Medicine
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