Bennet Omalu Research Paper

“He who knows, speaks.” that is what the last name Onyemalukwube means which is made shorter to Omalu which is Bennet Omalu”s last name. Bennet is a neuro and forensic Pathologist, and Physician. He was born on September 30, 1968 in Nnokwa, Idemili, Anambra in Southeastern Nigeria, during the Nigerian civil war. His family had to leave their home, but they returned two years later after his birth. Bennets mother worked as a seamstress, his father worked as a civil mining engineer, and Bennet was the sixth of seven siblings.
Bennet got into the Federal Government college of Enugu for secondary school at the age of 12, and started going to medical school at the University of Nigeria when he was 16. After finishing school and getting his degree,
Webster had displayed patterns of distressed behavior before dying of a heart attack at the age of 50. Omalu was interested at what the former football players brain would show. So after examining it carefully Omalu discovered clumps of a protein in the brain called Tau. Which can impair function in the brain when it accumulates. (similar to dementia pugilistica) a disease documented years earlier in boxers. Omalu named the condition Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and submitted a paper to the medical journal Neurosurgery called “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a National Football League Player”. Bennet Omalu was the first person to document and publish findings of CTE. Omalu’s discovery has changed things for the better and worse depending on who you ask. The NFL was not so excited when Bennet first published his findings on CTE and asked him to “retract” what he said. Now in present time there is more research being made ,and on the NFL’s part they are trying to make football equipment more safe. In conclusion Dr. Bennet Omalu hopes to find out more of this condition that is being found in more and more people that play high contact