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After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...
The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...
A 2017 study found that more than 87% of football players tested across all levels — high school, college, and pros — tested ...
In a 2023 study, Boston University CTE Center found that 345 out of the 376 former NFL players investigated had CTE, a brain ...
CTE is defined as a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes brain damage similar to what’s seen in patients with ...
The man who killed four people in the New York City skyscraper that is home to NFL headquarters carried a note blaming the ...
Young athletes (ages 6–14) in tackle football experience vastly more head impacts — up to 15 times more — and 23 times more ...
Tamura expressed frustration with NFL's handling of CTE and had history of depression, headaches before killing four people ...
CTE, caused by repeated head trauma, has prompted a reckoning at all levels of football. The gunman believed he was suffering ...
To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.
Researchers have diagnosed many former football players with CTE since 2005. It can only be diagnosed through a brain autopsy ...
Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old gunman who fatally shot 36-year-old New York City police officer Didarul Islam and several ...