How To Prevent CTE And Concussions

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerating disease of the brain most common with military veterans, athletes, and individuals who experience frequent brain traumas. Tau proteins tend to form clumps in CTE, which slowly spreads all over one's brain thus killing healthy brain cells. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy can occur in young individuals as young as seventeen years old, though symptoms do not appear immediately until years after the occurrence of head collisions. In 1928, Dr. Harrison Martland described CTE as 'punch drunk syndrome,' which was mostly experienced by boxers.