PBS Tackles CTE
PBS published an article yesterday that summarizes the findings of a recent CTE study. Add this to the growing pile of evidence:
A total of 87 out of 91 former NFL players have tested positive for the brain disease at the center of the debate over concussions in football, according to new figures from the nation’s largest brain bank focused on the study of traumatic head injury.
Researchers with the Department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University have now identified the degenerative disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, in 96 percent of NFL players that they’ve examined and in 79 percent of all football players. The disease is widely believed to stem from repetitive trauma to the head, and can lead to conditions such as memory loss, depression and dementia.
In total, the lab has found CTE in the brain tissue in 131 out of 165 individuals who, before their deaths, played football either professionally, semi-professionally, in college or in high school.
Here is a link to the full article:
September 19th, 2015 at 8:02 PM ^
I just saw an article about Benny Madrid, an MMA fighter, who won his fight, then thanked his wife and his girlfriend. Maybe one too many hits to the head there, Benny...