Brain Trauma expert shares insights

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Dr. Dan Perl, neuropathologist, spent the last two years looking at the brains of former NFL players and the effect traumatic brain injury has on them.

What he found was that a great number of former NFL players developed chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, a disease long thought to exist only among boxers, who suffer numerous traumatic brain injuries during their careers.
CTE has a distinct microscopic appearance that can be seen when a brain is autopsied, but many of the former players who were confirmed to have CTE displayed impulsive behavior, abrupt mood swings, sleep disturbances, substance abuse and suicide before they died.

Those are the same symptoms often seen in military personnel exposed to improvised explosive devices, said Perl, who spoke at a public lecture in Great Falls on Monday hosted by the McLaughlin Research Institute.

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