The Impact of Football on the Brain
By Vernon Williams, M.D., Contributor |Sept. 27, 2017, at 6:00 a.m.
The only reliable way to confirm a suspected CTE diagnosis is after death, via autopsy. (Bob Ingelhart/iStockphoto)
A recent study conducted by Boston University researchers and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has caught the public's attention. And, as a result, concern about American football's impact on the brain – namely when it comes to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE – has heightened once again.
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