New CTE Study: Young Athletes Show Signs of Head Trauma

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A new brain injury study by the Boston University CTE Center reports 40 percent of the brains of young athletes with contact sports experience showed signs of injury.

“We expected we would see some pathology but [were] surprised at the number of young folks who had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE,” said BU associate professor Thor Stein, as reported by Boston's WFXT.

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