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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) has been diagnosed in a (formerly) living person and confirmed by an autopsy:
Researchers published, what they say is the first case of a living person identified with the degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
While unnamed in the study, lead author Dr. Bennet Omalu confirmed to CNN that the subject of the case was former NFL player, Fred McNeill -- who died in 2015.
Omalu is credited with first discovering CTE in professional football players. The only way to definitively diagnose the disease is with a brain exam after death.
The discovery was first made in 2012 using an experimental brain scan that can trace a signature protein of CTE called tau. The case study was published in the journal Neurosurgery [open, DOI: 10.1093/neuros/nyx536] [DX] this week.
[...] While the experimental technology has been used on at least a dozen other former NFL players including Pro Football Hall of Famer, Dallas Cowboy Tony Dorsett, McNeill is the first case to have the test results confirmed with an autopsy. Omalu helped develop and is invested in the diagnostic exam, which uses a radioactive "tracer" called FDDNP to bind to tau proteins in the brain. The tau proteins can then be seen on a PET scan of the brain.
Also at ESPN.
Note: Some skepticism may be warranted.
Previously: Researchers: Aaron Hernandez Had the Worst Case of CTE Ever Seen in an Athlete So Young
(Score: 3, Funny) by RamiK on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:34PM (3 children)
Damn those Jews for trying to make us stop sacrificing our youth to Mammon in the holy ritual of NFL football. Don't they know that it is only through the repeated bashing of our skulls against one another in this very lucrative pass-time activity that we can prove our unity and faith as the chosen to HIM?
Damn them!
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:47PM (2 children)
Oy, Vey. Any expression of national pride is, indeed, anuddah Shoah!
We cannot tolerate that racism and anti-semitism any longer. In fact, I believe the NFL needs more lesbians with short grey hair on the field. Go team Soros!
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday November 18 2017, @09:04PM
As an atheist, this is actually how I interpret Jesus. Apparently I'm not alone in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism [wikipedia.org]
I believe most sports need more women in skimpy outfits and preferably no men.
Honestly, I couldn't care less about the NFL. I don't know what's your fascination with grown man wearing tights and staring each-other's behinds, but if you can't tell the difference between healthy patriotism and banging heads against the (defensive) wall, you're not doing a great service to your country taking this position either.
Besides, the NFL doesn't have to stop. They can just go hard single-piece body-head armor like hard-upper-torso spacesuits so tackles will transfer force to the yoke, upper-chest and shoulders instead of the head.
Like, take these https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/images_blogs/wiredscience/2011/10/modernspacesuits.jpg [wired.com] and strip all the unnecessary crap leaving something like this: https://ibb.co/mXPJ06 [ibb.co] . A few more tweaks are probably necessary but it's an easily solvable problem if those NFL idiots just admit there's a problem and hire an engineer to solve it.
Or, you could send those guys to keep butting heads for no good god damn reason while anyone suggesting otherwise to be an anti-patriotic Jew scheming to pussify America.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday November 18 2017, @10:46PM
So, we bought a house once from a pair of short grey haired lesbians who were breaking up - one was the campaign manager for Janet Reno's run for Florida Governor.
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