Junior Seau Tests Positive For Brain Disease Caused By Head Trauma

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Legendary NFL linebacker – Junior Seau has tested positive for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) – a disease in the brain caused by head trauma. CTE is a neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia, memory loss and depression.

Junior Seau committed suicide by shooting himself in the heart just 2 years after retiring. Many have said he did this so that researchers/scientists would be able to study his brain in hopes to figure out if he too had been victim to any brain trauma.

CTE is more commonly associated with boxers but has been a popular subject looming over the NFL since 2005. CTE is a progressive disease and Seau’s son – Tyler explains the changes he saw in his father:

He would sometimes lose his temper, He would get irritable over very small things. And he would take it out on not just myself but also other people that he was close to. And I didn’t understand why.

No word on if the family will join the many families that are suing the NFL for not doing more to protect their loved ones from the physical and mental damage of the game.

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