Pictures of aaron hernandez brain damage
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Aaron Hernandez and a photo of his brain showing CTE.
Aaron Hernandez had the worst case of CTE in a individ his age that Boston University researchers had ever seen. The disease riddled his brain and even caused it to shrink.
The group of BU researchers studied the former NFL star’s brain after he committed suicide in 2017 while serving a prison sentence for homicide. A new Netflix series is exploring how CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy) may have affected Hernandez’s behavior. The affliction, caused bygd repeated blows to the head, can trigger aggressive and suicidal behavior, researchers have found.
The scene of Aaron Hernandez’s suicide was bizarre. He’d sketched references to the Illuminati on his prison wall in blood. He scrawled a Bible verse on his forehead. His suicide in a prison cell was a tragedy of Shakespearean proportions in and of itself. An athlete of such enormous talent had placed a ligature around hi
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Aaron Hernandez's brain disease 'undoubtedly took years to develop'
Former NFL player Aaron Hernandez's degenerative brain disease "undoubtedly took years to develop", researchers have said.
Hernandez was 27 when he hanged himself in prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of his friend Odin Lloyd in 2013.
Days before his death, he was acquitted in the 2012 drive-by shootings of two men in Boston.
:: Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez had CTE
In September, Hernandez's lawyer Jose Beaz said the former New England Patriots star had the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that neurologists have ever discovered in someone so young.
Now researchers have revealed the full extent of Hernandez's brain damage.
Dr Ann McKee, director of Boston University's CTE Center, said the outside of the brain seemed normal but the inside was riddled with evidence of CTE and small haemorrhages associated with head trauma.
The hippocampus - vital for memory
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Aaron Hernandez’s CTE Worst Seen by BU Experts in a Young Person
MED’s Ann McKee says convicted killer’s brain will advance research
- Aaron Hernandez had most extreme CTE BU researchers have seen in young person
- Convicted murderer’s brain invaluable to research given its pristine condition, his youth
- Ann McKee, head of BU CTE Center, announces findings during annual CTE conference
Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriot and convicted murderer who died from suicide in jail in April, suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) to a degree never before seen by BU researchers in such a young person, a University expert in the brain disease said Thursday.
Hernandez, just 27 when he hanged himself with a bedsheet, was riddled with Stage 3 CTE, to a degree that “we’ve never seen…in our 468 brains, except for individuals very much older,” Ann McKee, director of BU’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, told a news conference at the Metcalf Trustee Center Thu