25-07-2017 17:37 via 10tv.com

CTE found in most donated brains from NFL players

Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease in nearly all of them, from athletes in the NFL down to high school.It's the biggest update on chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. The disease has been linked with repeated head blows and the results confirm that it can happen even in young players. But the report only reflects high occurrence in samples at a Boston brain bank and many donors contributed because of troubling symptoms before death.CTE was diagnosed in
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