Researchers report first case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in an active college football player
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - 14:49
in Health & Medicine
The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy (CSTE) at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) announced today that University of Pennsylvania (Penn) football co-captain Owen Thomas was suffering from mild stages of the degenerative brain disease, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), when he committed suicide in April at the age of 21, becoming the first case of CTE in an active college football player. It was the Thomas family`s request that these findings be made public.