Medical Xpress reports that a team from the University of Texas Health Science Center, lead by Dr. Kevin Bieniek, has recently released their findings after conducting the ‘largest ever’ study on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
The research article detailing the study, titled ‘Association between contact sports participation and chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a retrospective cohort study’, was first published by the international journal Brain Pathology in June.
Bieniek’s research involved studying brain samples from 300 former athletes and 450 non-athletes to determine the prevalence of CTE — a condition that is caused most often by repeated blows to the head (both concussive and sub-concussive) — in a large pool of people that was representative of the general population of the U.