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posted by mrpg on Sunday November 12 2017, @05:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the always-use-a-helmet dept.

Aaron Hernandez's brain shows signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) with a severity beyond anything experts have ever seen in an athlete his age:

The Boston researcher who examined the brain of former football star Aaron Hernandez says it showed the most damage her team had seen in an athlete so young.

Hernandez, whose on-field performance for the New England Patriots earned him a $40 million contract in 2012, hanged himself in a prison cell earlier this year while serving a life sentence for murder. He was 27 years old.

Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist who directs research of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, at Boston University, said her research team found Hernandez had Stage 3 CTE and that they had never seen such severe damage in a brain younger than 46 years old. McKee announced her findings at medical conference on Thursday in Boston where she spoke publicly for the first time.

The researchers described the brain as one of the most significant contributions to their work due to the former athlete's young age at the time of his death. Also at the Boston Herald.

In other news, a lawsuit by the estate of Aaron Hernandez (filed while Hernandez was alive) against a prison phone service has been thrown out:

The identity of a hacker who accessed jailhouse conversations between Aaron Hernandez and his fiancee while he was awaiting trial will likely never be revealed now that a judge has spiked the former Patriot's lawsuit against the phone service hired to record and store non-privileged calls.

Suffolk Superior Court Judge Helene Kazanjian entered her judgment Monday allowing Texas-based Securus Technologies Inc.'s motions to dismiss Hernandez's complaint. It was initially filed in federal court last year, five months before Hernandez hanged himself in his cell at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. Hernandez's estate was pushing forward with the civil action.

Did American football create a murderer and drive him to suicide?

Previously: NFL Acknowledges Link Between American Football and CTE
Ailing NFL Players' Brains Show Signs of Neurodegenerative Disease
Former Football Star Aaron Hernandez's Brain Found to Have Severe CTE


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:08AM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:08AM (#595853)

    That is not bullshit at all. Major brain trauma is not something to be shrugged off. Sure it is a clickbait type headline, but the point still stands.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:27AM (7 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:27AM (#595855) Journal

    OP was complaining about the bait question, not the headline. The headline accurately reflects the opinions of the researchers, who seem to be the foremost experts in their field:

    http://www.bu.edu/cte/our-research/ [bu.edu]
    https://www.theringer.com/nfl/2017/9/26/16372088/boston-university-cte-test-for-the-living-football-impact [theringer.com]
    https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nations-top-cte-concussion-experts-to-convene-at-boston-precision-health-summit-300534830.html [prnewswire.com]

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    • (Score: 2) by BK on Sunday November 12 2017, @05:04PM (6 children)

      by BK (4868) on Sunday November 12 2017, @05:04PM (#595930)

      That's awesome! The best part is that historically, the foremost experts in various fields have never, ever, ever been wrong! Talk about appeal to authority…

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:29PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @07:29PM (#595975)

        The foremost researchers in the CTE field publish their findings as cursory descriptions in the washington post apparently... I would accept a blog that went into detail, but not this.

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 12 2017, @08:44PM (4 children)

        by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday November 12 2017, @08:44PM (#595987) Journal

        Goddamn. Next time I'll do an in-depth investigation of their entire careers.

        They are getting the brains sent to them and have a CTE center. That must count for something.

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        • (Score: 2) by BK on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:42PM (3 children)

          by BK (4868) on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:42PM (#596002)

          They are getting the brains sent to them and have a CTE center. That must count for something.

          Well, they could be zombies. Just saying. Having a CTE center could be a good cover.

          I'm all for trusting the experts. But not unconditionally. I hate 'they're the experts so they must be right(er)' type statements. Remember, the police are the experts at finding criminals. They have facilities devoted to the purpose. Trust em?

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          • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:47PM (1 child)

            by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:47PM (#596004) Journal

            They have facilities devoted to the purpose.

            Those facilities can't be called unique though, so it's not comparable.

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            • (Score: 2) by BK on Sunday November 12 2017, @10:02PM

              by BK (4868) on Sunday November 12 2017, @10:02PM (#596006)

              Would you feel better if I said the FBI?

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @08:32AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @08:32AM (#596099)

            No, I trust 4chan to find teh bad guys.