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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Case Study

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One of the worst recorded cases of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is the case of Aaron Hernandez. Aaron Hernandez was a former NFL player who played football professionally for three years and collegiately for three years. He displayed many symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy before his death. He had murdered three people and was serving a life sentence for one of the murders. The murders and suicide are prime examples of the symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. After his autopsy, it was reported as the worst case of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy of anyone under the age of 46. (Kilgore, 2017) Hernandez was only 27. The official diagnosis of the disease was stage three Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. (Kilgore, 2017) One of the most intriguing factors in this case is, Hernandez only had one reported concussion in his playing time. This plays into the narrative that he could have been genetically predisposed to develop Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. …show more content…

I believe I have a high chance of developing the disease later in life. Some of the symptoms have already occurred such as mood swings, and aggression at times. This combined with a history of playing football for eight years leaves a serious concern for me. I would not be surprised at all if I was diagnosed with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy later in my life as all signs point towards the possibility. I have not been identified to be carrying the Apolipoprotein E gene, but this is because I’ve never been genetically mapped for this gene. Many of my possible symptoms could also just be from puberty and development of the brain. This is my

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Concussions On September 24, 2002 is when Bennet Omalu was getting ready to start an autopsy on the famous football player Mike Webster. Mike had died from blows to the head on the football field. But the Steelers claimed it was a heart attack. The blows to his head affected him most after he retired.

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Aaron Hernandez, an NFL tight end, has committed murder; CTE is to blame. Hernandez was convicted of murder in 2015 and was later found dead in his cell. He had killed himself. After his death, his brain was taken for research. Dr. Ann Mckee, “examined his brain and said in a statement that Mr. Hernandez had ‘early brain atrophy’ and ‘large perforations in the septum pellucidum, a central membrane’ of the brain” (Belson 2017).

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According CNN’s article “NFL Concussion Fun Facts,” there have been 692 combined concussions diagnosed throughout the preseason and regular season in the NFL over the past 3 years. It may be evident by these numbers that the NFL has a major problem with players getting concussions, and over the years their concussion protocol has been questioned by former players and other people around the football community. Ken Belson stated in his article “Brain Trauma to Affect One in Three Players, N.F.L. Agrees,“ that a third of retired football players are subject to long term brain issues, these issues may include the disease known as CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) which has been brought to light in a more recent time. CTE has effected a good

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Summary In the article, “Is C.T.E. a Defense for Murder,” Amy Dillard and Lisa A. Tucker discuss C.T.E and believe that it should be a defense for murder. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, commonly referred to as C.T.E., is a brain disease that occurs from repeated brain trauma. This is most common in military veterans or athletes. Dillard and Tucker mention a study that was done at Boston University and 111 brains from diseased NFL football players were examined.

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CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) is a progressive, degenerative disease of the brain caused by repeated head injuries. CTE was first found in boxers and recent studies show that CTE is also found in football players. It causes a buildup of an abnormal protein called Tau. During the recent interview conducted by the New York Times, NFL members have denied having any relationship between the NFL and CTE. However, there is evidence pointing against them.

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INTRO/BACKGROUND Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative condition in which an individual may experience executive dysfunction, impaired memory, depression, apathy, poor impulse control, suicidal tendencies, and ultimately dementia, has come to attention in recent years (Baugh et al. 2012). Currently the disease is not diagnosable until the individual has passed away and symptoms often mimic those of other neurodegenerative conditions. With that being said, CTE is a problem that has no way of being detected, let alone a cure. As CTE is being more extensively researched, it has been found that the cause is much broader than documented concussions. The origins of CTE began with the boxing world and a term called “punch drunk” which referred to the symptoms observed in boxers, hypothesized to be a result of the repeated blows sustained throughout a career.

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An NFL football player will endure somewhere between 900 to 1500 blows to their head over the course of a single season. With an immense amount of blows like this comes an immense amount of damage to a player’s brain. This extensive amount of brain damage has been decided, by Dr. Bennet Omalu, to result in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Over the course of these discoveries and much controversy, the NFL has been targeted, denied all accusations, done very few things to lessen the risk of concussions in football, and the risks and number of concussions have steadily increased throughout the league’s

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Since American football star Michael Webster’s death, Nigerian-American physician, Bennet Omalu performed an autopsy that surprisingly showed his cause of death was from sever damage of the frontal lobe of Webster’s brain. What happened to Webster’s brain is now called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE, which is a degenerative disease. This “sickness” is due to the repeated impact of football related concussions. Since the discovery the NFL and all the players have taken serious repercussions in the attempt of lowering the amount of potential concussions. The sport of football might appear dangerous but now the safety measures have been and are still improving.

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Dr. Bennet Omalu, who conducted the autopsy of Mike Webster, found the first scientific clue regarding the long-term effect of concussions in football (Kirk League of Denial). Upon investigating Webster's brain tissues, Dr. Omalu found collections of tau proteins, a definitive sign of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. CTE is best characterized by the lifelong progressive deterioration of cognitive functions with an environmental etiology (McKee et al.

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Effects of CTE CTE is a disease in the brain that is caused by concussions. There has been a rising fears of this disease in the media lately. This fear has been surrounded by the sport of football. If you play this you are in danger of getting CTE. At least 31% of the people that have this disease have been suicidal at some point (Bonk).

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Anyone who has had a brain injury in the past needs to be aware of the symptoms of CTE, not only for themselves, but also for the people around them. Football causes about ten times the amount of significant brain injuries compared to other popular sports (What). A sport with as much violence as football needs to be taken seriously. Children who are not aware of the consequences and the magnitude of the injuries they can sustain need to be protected.

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out of the 27 former with mid CTE, 96% had behavioral or mood symptoms while alive 84% with server CTE 89% behavioral or mood and 95% showed decline in the ability to to think 85% had signs of dementia and condition muscle. Therefore the numbers show how people wouldn’t want to let their kids play contact sport.to conclude these numbers show how suvera a concussion can really be and if we don't take the proper safety precautions then thought numbers are going to grow at a exspantional rate meaning that the numbers are just going to keep growing and growing at fast

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Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy(CTE) is a progressive degenerative brain disease that affects the lives of many who suffer from head trauma of the brain. CTE has been associated with many different diseases within a person 's memory, personality changes, Parkinsonism, along with speech or gait abnormalities. The disease initially was described as “punch-drunk” syndrome. Dr. Harrison Martland made the theory in 1928 as a group of boxers began having multiple symptoms of what is formally known as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy.

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Repeated hits over time can be devastating, including to the head. Over time these hits can add up. They can lead to brain damage called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. A boy named Owen Thomas, at 9, begin playing football. At the age of 21, he killed himself.

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The number of fatal and severe TBIs has been declining because of improved safety laws, standards in automobiles, an increased public education on prevention of TBI. In the US there are more than 5.3 million survivors of traumatic brain injury and more than 1.7 million people sustain a new TBI every year. Three percent are fatal, 16.3 percent require hospitalization, and 80.7 are treated and released from the emergency room. An estimated 3.2 million Americans are living with impairments after being hospitalized by a TBI (Early,2006). I will know introduced you to Ingrid, who had a Traumatic Brain

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