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. What has made Dr. Martland to assume this is due to the symptoms he had found in these boxers which included: deterioration of attention, loss of concentration, memory, disoriented or confused, dizziness, and the …show more content…
He did not find any cause of death for the victim and everything seemed fine with him internally and externally. The brain is where Doctor Omalu specialized and found little to no abnormalities with it, that was until he had taken a closer look at the brain under a microscope. From this moment until and to this very day they are trying to figure out a cure or even preventive treatment for the disease. There is no way to tell if you have it though if you are alive as it cannot be discovered through MRI’s or even any other medical technology. The only way to confirm cases is if you are deceased and have an autopsy performed on your brain. As noted, the only way to actually confirm that you or someone suffers from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is by the pathological features of your brain. The overall features of your brain contains a great amount of information that will help you identify the disease. On the left side of this image above you can see that this is supposed to be what a normal brain is supposed to look like. With very minimal head injuries or brain trauma sustained. On the right side, respectively, this is the most advanced stage of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Stage four is where you would see this type of occurrence where the brain looks like it has been reduced