You have no doubt read or at least heard about a recent study published about chronic traumatic encephalopathy, better known as CTE, a brain disease that is thought to affect a large number of football players. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who is on record that he is contemplating retirement on a yearly basis, saw it, and said that it gave him pause.
Results from a Boston-area brain bank, where patients voluntarily donated their brains for post-mortem research purposes, found some startling trends, according to their recently-published study. About 90 percent of the brains that they studied across all levels of football demonstrated signs of CTE.