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34 NFL Players Had Brain Disease | Synopsis

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34 NFL Players Had Brain Disease

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Dr. Ann McKee, teacher of Neurology and Pathology of Boston University School of Medication and co-director of the Veterans Affairs Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, inspects a brain in the Bedford Veteran Medical Center. (Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe/Getty Images)

On the heels of the current NFL suicide, specialists announced today that 34 NFL users whose brain were studied experienced CTE, a degenerative brain illness caused by duplicated hits to the head that results in confusion, depression and, eventually, dementia. The study was released just days after the murder-suicide of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. It's not yet known exactly what triggered Belcher's action, but they mirror various other NFL users who have actually committed suicide. Specialists at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy released the biggest case series study of CTE to date, according to Boston Medical Center.

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Jovan Belcher

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Dr. Ann McKee

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Junior Seau

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Dave Duerson

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Relevance: 0.221183

Terry Long

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Relevance: 0.210447

Disambiguation: Athlete | FootballPlayerReferences:

Andre Waters

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Clark Hunt

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0Clark Hunt said Sunday that Belcher was "a player who had not had a long concussion history," ...
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Dr. Robert Cantu

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-0.0984803"While it remains unknown what level of exposure to brain trauma is required to trigger CTE, there is no available evidence that occasional, isolated or well-managed concussions give rise to CTE," one of the study's co-authors, Dr. Robert Cantu, said ...
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Sport: football

Overall Sentiment: 0.0677503

Relevance: 0.304753

HealthCondition: degenerative brain disease

Overall Sentiment: -0.166064

Relevance: 0.837414

FieldTerminology: Neurology

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.329525

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