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Expert Ties Andre Waters Suicide to Brain Damage (1 Viewer)

Pickle Rody

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Quoted from the article:

"Since the former National Football League player Andre Waters killed himself in November, an explanation for his suicide has remained a mystery. But after examining remains of Mr. Waters’s brain, a neuropathologist in Pittsburgh is claiming that Mr. Waters had sustained brain damage from playing football and he says that led to his depression and ultimate death.

The neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet Omalu of the University of Pittsburgh, a leading expert in forensic pathology, determined that Mr. Waters’s brain tissue had degenerated into that of an 85-year-old man with similar characteristics as those of early-stage Alzheimer’s victims. Dr. Omalu said he believed that the damage was either caused or drastically expedited by successive concussions Mr. Waters, 44, had sustained playing football."

edit: Heard it first on Mike & Mike this morning.

 
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the aftermath sounds similar to story of the PIT center... mike webster (?)...
Webster is actually specifically mentioned in the article as one of the reference points that Dr. Omalu and Chris Nowinski used for examining Andre Waters' brain.Very interesting read.
 

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