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Dozens of former players have filed lawsuits against the league, arguing that hits they absorbed while playing football are the cause of chronic health problems, including brain damage from multiple concussions.
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The spotlight was on the game itself, knocking it off the news that former NFL linebacker, Junior Seau, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy in his brain, most likely caused by football.
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He was posthumously diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain ailment that is caused by repeated blows to the head.
Earlier this month, Seau was determined to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a neurodegenerative brain disease that can follow multiple hits to the head, the National Institutes of Health said.
On Jan. 9, the National Institutes of Health confirmed that the future Hall-of-Fame linebacker, who in May 2012 committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease that has been connected to other athletes who died way too early after a career taking frequent blows to the head.
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He died of heart failure in 2010 at just 45, and when they examined his brain they found he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), caused by taking blows to the head.
Research, such as a study done by Boston University School of Medicine, has identified serious brain damage, or CTE -- chronic traumatic encephalopathy -- not only in the autopsied brains of professional football players but in at least one high school player's brain as well.
He felt his worries were founded when he learned that star NFL linebacker Junior Seau -- who took his own life last May -- suffered from a neurodegenerative brain disease that can develop from concussions known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE.
That worked fine for our ancestors, Peeke said, but the brain can't tell the difference between survival stress and chronic, daily stress.
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"Chronic pain is in many ways a central sensitization of pain producing pathways in the brain, " says James Rainville, a Harvard prof and chief of physical rehabilitation at New England Baptist Hospital.
Chronic stress, of course, has been shown over and over to be a bad thing for body and brain.
On the contrary, reducing our stress levels is something that we should take very seriously, since chronic stress can affect the ways in which our brains function in the present, and it may seriously alter our brain health in the years to come.
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