In this news article the topic that is greatly discussed is how playing football has a definite link to brain disease such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, and can even lead to things such as Alzheimer’s disease and problems in cognition. Chris Borland that played for the San Francisco 49ers as an inside linebacker had to retire because health concerns related to the repeated traumatic brain injury. This has happened to many other players but this article was written specifically for Borland. At only age 50 he already has health concerns. He is still very young as a lot of the other players are and they all definitely have a lot more life to live.
The American Academy of Neurology has been doing research on this for quite some time and are the ones to say that there is this such link. For many years people have been trying to say what football has done to these retired football payers but the …show more content…
A disease such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is prevalent after multiple head injuries have been acquired. CTE is only detected when there has been an autopsy done. Out of 165 candidates that checked for CTE 131 were found to have the neurodegenerative disease. This disease is not only one that loses cognition such as memory and concentration but also can cause a time when one can have anger issues and it leads up to later issues. Research has been done measuring what has happened to the matter of the brain. When researcher measure the amount of damage do the different regions of the brain 43 percent had levels that were below the average norms. There is a lot of nerve damage specifically to the axons, and cause the brain not to relays messages to different parts of the brain to executive functioning can
The American Academy of Neurology has been doing research on this for quite some time and are the ones to say that there is this such link. For many years people have been trying to say what football has done to these retired football payers but the …show more content…
A disease such as Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is prevalent after multiple head injuries have been acquired. CTE is only detected when there has been an autopsy done. Out of 165 candidates that checked for CTE 131 were found to have the neurodegenerative disease. This disease is not only one that loses cognition such as memory and concentration but also can cause a time when one can have anger issues and it leads up to later issues. Research has been done measuring what has happened to the matter of the brain. When researcher measure the amount of damage do the different regions of the brain 43 percent had levels that were below the average norms. There is a lot of nerve damage specifically to the axons, and cause the brain not to relays messages to different parts of the brain to executive functioning can