american football: The discovery is the first time Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy has been identified in an NRL athlete, according to Nine News Australia. CTE is a degenerative brain disease found in former players of American football, ice hockey, soccer, rugby union and others exposed to repeated head injury. To improve your experience update it here News Health Brain disease found in former NRL players By AAP1 23pm Jun 27, 2019Facebook Tweet MailA disease linked to repeated concussions in American sport has been found in the brains of two former Australian rugby league players. Researchers and clinicians from Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, NSW Health and the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre made the discovery in two donated brains from middle-aged former professionals who played more than 150 NRL games over many years. Lead author Associate Professor Michael Buckland said the changes in the two brains were distinctive and definitive . I have looked at about 1000 brains over the last 10 years and have not seen this sort of pathology in any other case before, he said in a statement on Thursday. Their identities have been kept confidential.
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