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Tanner Sandberg

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Huddled Up for Healing: Working with the Football Team to Address a Degenerative Brain Disease

By Tanner Sandberg
July 21, 2022
In 2002, the death of legendary NFL center Mike Webster introduced the world to the degenerative brain disease known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The disease is marked by depression, rage, substance abuse, cognitive dysfunction, and dementia, and diagnoses are rising rapidly among retired football players.
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