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<< (..) professional football players are susceptible to a progressive degenerative disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which is caused by repetitive brain trauma. Now, researchers on Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus have discovered a significant and surprising amount of CTE in males who had participated in amateur contact sports in their youth [ football, boxing, wrestling, rugby, basketball, baseball and others played while in school ]. >>

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Kevin F. Bieniek, Owen A. Ross, et al. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy pathology in a neurodegenerative disorders brain bank. Acta Neuropathologica, 2015; 130 (6): 877 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-015-1502-4

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00401-015-1502-4