Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a disease in the brain that is found in many athletes, and military veterans. CTE is caused from repetitive brain trauma which is why it is found in many football players.Chronic traumatic encephalopathy was actually referred to as dementia pugilistica which they thought was only in boxers. The BIRI says "The brain of an individual who suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy gradually deteriorates and will over time end up losing mass. Certain areas of the brain are particularly liable to atrophy, though other areas are prone to becoming enlarged. Another aspect of CTE is that some areas of the brain experience an accumulation of tau protein, a substance which serves to stabilize cellular structure
One off the main functions of tau is to modulate the stability of axonal microtubules. Atonal mircotubule is actually a method responsible for movement of mitochondria, lipids, synaptic vesicles, proteins, and any other cell organelle to and from a neuron's cell body, through the cytoplasm of its axon. Due to what tau is made up of it has the ability to mutate to do other jobs and sometimes that can be extremely dangerous. Because when tau mutates that the reason for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and Alzheimer's disease. There is different types of tau depending on your age and they do different things. The history of CTE starts back in 1928 when Dr. Harrison Martland said that a group of boxers had "punch drunk syndrome" 75 years later doctors saw this disease in boxers and also victims of brain trauma. Even though in those 75 years there was only a total of about 50 cases in the 1960's they later came up with the name Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Also in 2005 the first doctor to ever diagnose CTE was Bennet Omalu and the player he studied was a pro bowl NFL player and the starting center for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Mike
Some of the most common include loss of memory, difficulty controlling impulsive or erratic behavior, impaired judgment, behavioral disturbances including aggression and depression, difficult with balance, and a gradual onset of dementia. An individual with CTE may mistakenly ascribe the symptoms to the normal process of aging, or might receive a wrong diagnosis due to the fact that many of the symptoms are similar to other conditions such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. CTE has been diagnosed in several notable cases which received widespread media attention, including the suicide deaths of NFL player Junior Seau, and professional wrestler Chris Benoit who committed suicide after murdering his wife and son." CTE pretty much eats your brain and makes the body just lose its mind and become mentally ill and at the same time it's eating its