Christopher J Nowinski, Samantha C Bureau, Michael E Buckland, Maurice A Curtis, Daniel H Daneshvar, Richard L M Faull, Lea T Grinberg, Elisa L Hill-Yardin, Helen C Murray, Alan J Pearce, Catherine M Suter, Adam J White, Adam M Finkel, Robert C Cantu
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with a history of repetitive head impacts (RHI). CTE was described in boxers as early as the 1920s and by the 1950s it was widely accepted that hits to the head caused some boxers to become "punch drunk." However, the recent discovery of CTE in American and Australian-rules football, soccer, rugby, ice hockey, and other sports has resulted in renewed debate on whether the relationship between RHI and CTE is causal. Identifying the strength of the evidential relationship between CTE and RHI has implications for public health and medico-legal issues...
2022: Frontiers in Neurology