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By Ken Belsen @ NYTimes.com/Sports, Sept. 21
Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots tight end who committed suicide in April while serving a life sentence for murder, was found to have a severe form of C.T.E., the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head trauma that has been found in more than 100 former N.F.L. players.
Researchers who examined the brain determined it was “the most severe case they had ever seen in someone of Aaron’s age,” said a lawyer for Hernandez in announcing the result at a news conference on Thursday. Hernandez was 27.
C.T.E., or chronic traumatic encephalopathy, can be diagnosed only posthumously.
Hernandez is the latest former N.F.L. player to have committed suicide and then been found to have C.T.E., joining Dave Duerson, Junior Seau, Andre Waters, Ray Easterling and Jovan Belcher, among others. Seau and Duerson shot themselves in the chest, apparently so that researchers would be able to examine their brain. Hernandez was found hanging in his prison cell.
Seau, Duerson and Waters were all older than 40, while Hernandez is one of the youngest former N.F.L. players to have been found with the disease. In July, researchers at Boston University released findings that showed that they had found C.T.E. in the brains of 110 of the 111 former N.F.L. players they had examined.[....]
Comments
CTE is probably O.J.'s problem.
by rmrd0000 on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 8:39am
Ah yes, very interesting conjecture, didn't think of that!
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:42pm
I feel guilty as a person who has never liked pro-football much, that I may be doing the confirmational bias thing.
So I should post this interesting opposing view about all the CTE mania that was sent to me by a family member:
I'm a brain scientist and I let my son play football
by artappraiser on Fri, 09/22/2017 - 12:45pm