{"id":181942,"date":"2016-02-03T20:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/03\/the-snake-had-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy\/"},"modified":"2016-02-03T20:44:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T01:44:00","slug":"the-snake-had-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/03\/the-snake-had-chronic-traumatic-encephalopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Snake Had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another victim of repeated head trauma in the NFL, only this time it is a quarterback, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/feb\/03\/oakland-raiders-ken-stabler-cte\">Ken Stabler of the Oakland Raiders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/oakland-raiders\">Oakland Raiders<\/a> quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in July at the age of 69 of colon cancer, was found to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease found in people who have had repeated blows to the head, according to a researchers at Boston University.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Stabler\u2019s diagnosis is the latest in a line of former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/nfl\">NFL<\/a> players who have been found to have the disease. Scientists in Boston said that on a scale of one to four, Stabler had high stage three CTE.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHe had moderately severe disease,\u201d Ann McKee, the chief of neuropathology at the VA Boston healthcare system and a professor of neurology and pathology at Boston University school of medicine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/04\/sports\/football\/ken-stabler-nfl-cte-brain-disease.html?_r=1\">told the New York Times<\/a>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After his death, Stabler\u2019s brain was removed and donated to researchers at the NFL\u2019s \u201cbrain bank\u201d at Boston University, who spent months dissecting it for clues as to why the quarterback\u2019s mind declined in his final years. During the last few years of his life, Stabler rapidly slowed down in his cognitive functions. He began complaining of a high-pitched ringing in his head, couldn\u2019t handle bright lights or loud noises, and began repeating himself.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">McKee, who conducted the examination, called Stabler\u2019s case \u201cpretty classic\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIt may be surprising since he was a quarterback, but certainly the lesions were widespread, and they were quite severe, affecting many regions of the brain,\u201d McKee, who conducted the examination, said. \u201cThere was no question about the diagnosis.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this happens to a quarter back, it happens to everyone on the field.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers, do not let your kids play football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another victim of repeated head trauma in the NFL, only this time it is a quarterback, Ken Stabler of the Oakland Raiders: Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in July at the age of 69 of colon cancer, was found to have suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease found in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,1150,1057],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","category-public-health","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}