Ann McKee, Director of the Boston University CTE Center, and neuropathologist Victor Alvarez conduct the post-mortem study of the brain of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez. MUST CREDIT: Boston University School of Medicine.
BOSTON • Aaron Hernandez suffered the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ever discovered in a person his age, damage that would have significantly affected his decision-making, judgment and cognition, researchers at Boston University revealed at a medical conference Thursday.
Dr. Anne McKee, the head of BU's CTE Center, which has studied the disease caused by repeated brain injury for more than decade, called Hernandez's brain "one of the most significant contributions to our work" because of the brain's pristine condition and the opportunity to study the disease in a 27-year-old brain.