Philly.com reported that Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chris Henry suffered from a chronic brain injury that might have influenced his mental state and behavior before he died in December 2009.
Doctors performed a microscopic tissue analysis of Henry’s brain that showed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).
Co-directors of the Brain Injury Research Institute at West Virginia University announced their findings alongside Henry’s mother, Carolyn Henry Glaspy. Ms Glaspy was not aware of her 26-year-old son’s underlying condition or the disease.
Henry died in December 2009, a day after he came out of the back of a pickup truck his fiancé was driving. An autopsy concluded he died of numerous head injuries, including a fractured skull and brain hemorrhaging.
A team doctor for the Mountaineers and a former Pittsburgh Steelers physician and fellow researchers believe chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is caused by multiple head impacts, regardless of whether [...]
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