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: CTE and Chris Benoit
The Sports Legacy Institute has for a while tried to draw attention to the connection between repeated sports-related head injuries and a condition termed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which itself is linked to behavioral disorders like depression, dementia, and suicide. CTE has been evident in boxers, and the Sports Legacy Institute has carried the study to football players.
And now they've carried it to pro-wrestling. With permission from Chris Benoit's father, they did a post-mortem study of Benoit's brain, and recently announced the finding of extensive signs of CTE.
http://www.sportslegacy.org/benoit_sli_
(My only problem with the Sports Legacy Institute studies is that they only talk about extreme cases, where extreme behavioral issues were present. They never mention any studies of athletes who had not shown behavioral disorders.)
The Sports Legacy Institute has for a while tried to draw attention to the connection between repeated sports-related head injuries and a condition termed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), which itself is linked to behavioral disorders like depression, dementia, and suicide. CTE has been evident in boxers, and the Sports Legacy Institute has carried the study to football players.
And now they've carried it to pro-wrestling. With permission from Chris Benoit's father, they did a post-mortem study of Benoit's brain, and recently announced the finding of extensive signs of CTE.
http://www.sportslegacy.org/benoit_sli_
(My only problem with the Sports Legacy Institute studies is that they only talk about extreme cases, where extreme behavioral issues were present. They never mention any studies of athletes who had not shown behavioral disorders.)