“The whole idea with this was to look at the earliest and first things that are happening in the brain in young individuals who played these contact sports, and what we ended up finding is that these changes are occurring before CTE, or even independent of CTE,” Cherry said in an interview Wednesday. “So it was really showing us that …
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Shwetha SurendranJul 30, 2025, 02:25 PM ET Close Shwetha Surendran is writer in ESPN’s investigative and enterprise unit. Brain experts say it could take weeks to learn whether Shane Tamura, the 27-year-old gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before killing himself Monday, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that can be diagnosed only after …
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Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots gets tackled with his helmet by Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens during the 2013 AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 20, 2013, in Foxboro, Mass. Hernandez died by suicide in 2017, and researchers found he had a severe case of CTE. Jared Wickerham/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jared Wickerham/Getty …
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