Updated: Apr 10 2021, 13:33 ET
A BRAIN disease caused by blows to the head has been blamed for a string of massacres in which athletes snap and go on murderous rampages.
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is caused by repeated traumatic head injuries and has been found in former NFL stars and wrestlers who have committed murder.
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Phillip Adams killed five people, including his own doctor, in a massacre which has been linked to CTECredit: Getty
WWE wrestler Chris Benoit, who slaughtered his wife and son, and footballer Aaron Hernandez, who executed his friend, both suffered from the disease.
In the case of Hernandez, he displayed increasingly paranoid and aggressive behaviour and was also accused of two other murders despite being a millionaire athlete.
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College football players were more likely to have concussions and head hits during practices and preseason training rather than regular season play, an observational study of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I players showed.
In six NCAA teams across five pre-pandemic seasons, 72% of concussions and 67% of head impacts occurred during practices, according to Michael McCrea, PhD, of Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and co-authors.
Roughly half of all concussions occurred during preseason training, even though preseason training represented just 21% of the whole season. Head impacts in preseason were twice the proportion of regular season head hits, they reported in