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Aaron Hernandez found to have suffered most severe CTE ever found in a person his age (report)
Aaron Hernandez's brain was determined to have the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy of any case discovered, Boston University researchers announced Thursday.
Dr. Ann McKee, who has been at the front of every major CTE discovery in relation to the NFL, said Hernandez was diagnosed with Stage 3 CTE. Researchers had never seen that in a brain of a person younger than 46 years old. The brain had significant damage to the frontal lobe, which impacts a person's ability to make decisions and monitor behavior.
"We can't take the pathology and explain the behavior," McKee said, according to The Washington Post. "But we can say collectively, in our collective experience, that individuals with CTE, and CTE of this severity, have difficulty with impulse control, decision-making, inhibition of impulses for aggression, emotional volatility, rage behaviors. We know that collectively."