Walt Amses: Deadly equation — CTE + TBI = DOA

Editor’s note: Walt Amses is a writer and former educator who lives in Calais.
Since the death by suicide while serving a life sentence for murder and subsequent post-mortem diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE in former New England Patriot tight end Aaron Hernandez, there has been much speculation on the role his deteriorating brain played in his having hanged himself in his cell last March. Yet there has been very little dialogue about how his CTE may have contributed to