Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player.

By A. Valadka. Neurosurgery, 2006

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CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY IN A NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE PLAYER: PART II (2005, methodology): “Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis with Hha I (New England Biolabs, Beverly, MA) was completed using previously published protocols (20, 27).”
The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (2015, background): “Omalu and colleagues were the first to report CTE in a professional American football player [38, 39] and a professional wrestler [37].”
Functionally-Detected Cognitive Impairment in High School Football Players without Clinically-Diagnosed Concussion (2014, neutral): “9,10 Given the dire outcomes observed as a consequence of CTE, and given that such a functional observation suggests that present clinical practice does not succeed in detecting the neurological deﬁcits in these individuals, it is important that we develop a means to detect when such injury occurs,…”