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I feel the same way. As bad as it's gotten for him, I fear the worst is yet to come.

You keep bringing up the example of a 23 y.o. drunk guy getting into a bar fight. As I've mentioned before, one isolated behavioral event does not suggest a psychiatric illness or brain condition. Maybe the drunk guy has a psychiatric illness and maybe he doesn't, it's impossible to say without...

THC is definitely helpful and can lessen some symptoms, such as irritability and mood swings. There's also promising research using psychedelic meds (ayahuasca I believe) as a palliative treatment. However, I believe the neuroprotective effects of THC have only been found in mice and rat...

[I had some personal matters to deal with and just now finding the time to reply] Yes, I did seriously ask you to do that, but didn't seriously think that you would. Operationalizing psychological constructs is extremely difficult and I don't think people appreciate the complexity involved...

Let's keep things in perspective. I offered an opinion of a diagnosis in a free forum. This was not a formal evaluation and I didn't sign off on an assessment that could, for example, determine Mark's treatment. If this were a formal diagnosis, I would have sought out collateral documentation to...

Good one, keep doing what you do best - trolling. Still waiting on your explanation for "how diagnoses are made" plus the list of "literally hundreds" of differential diagnoses.

"Let it go, Lance" - clever. You'd like that wouldn't you, only it's not going to happen. Let me see, at first I was a "dope on the internet" (definitely NOT a medical professional). Now, according to you, I am a medical professional but an "internet quack". Make up your mind, fool. There...

When I said I never dismissed the idea of other possibilities what I meant is that I never dismissed the possibility of other neurological conditions (i.e. other than CTE) or psychiatric illness (it could also be substance use related but that too is a psychiatric illness). I'm just not sure...

I never dismissed the idea of other possibilities. Many posts ago I simply suggested that CTE was a "likely explanation" for his clinical presentation and apparently that triggered a lot of people on here but, again, I have never dismissed other explanations such as other neurological conditions...

As I've already said, you wouldn't diagnose CTE (or any other neurological condition) on one behavioral event. Behavior is just one of the factors you would consider when making a diagnosis and, even then, the behavior would need to occur consistently and somewhat regularly (as is the case with...

Nitpicking? I'm asking you to backup your lofty claims that you know "how medical diagnoses are made" and provide some (or really any) of the alternative diagnoses, neither of which you can do because you're a blowhard. You seem to know a lot about me. And you're certain I'm not a medical...

I see your earlier post of “literally hundreds of diagnoses” has now become “literally dozens.” Please educate us all on “how medical diagnoses are made,”

These are good questions and I agree with your point about there being "a range of possibilities for Walton's actions." The truth is that neurological and especially psychiatric illnesses are very difficult to diagnose with certainty. There is often disagreement even amongst clinicians about the...

"Game. Set. Match." What are you nine? Geez, calm down. If you go back to one of my earlier posts, I said CTE is a "likely explanation" for the very reason that we will never know for certain until an autopsy is performed. In one of your posts, you said that there are "literally hundreds of...

Pretty simply actually, he meets the proposed clinical criteria for CTE: A minimum of 5 years of organized American football, with 2 or more of those years played at the high school level or beyond. - check Core clinical features include progressive cognitive impairment involving episodic...

My bad, I'm a noob so just getting the hang of this whole posting thing, bear with me.

You make a good point about mental health issues being another likely factor. That said, it doesn't rule-out CTE. People often have co-occurring brain conditions. In fact, having a preexisting mental illness puts him at an increased risk/vulnerability to developing CTE. Perhaps that is why it's...

Not sure how your article disputes the point about autopsy. The title is "Criteria Proposed to Diagnose Clinical Syndrome Tied to CTE". And this is literally the first sentence: "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) remains a diagnosis that can only be made during autopsy, but consensus...

Um, okay. Not sure how we went from Mark and possible CTE to Antifa.

CTE is a chronic, untreatable and extremely serious brain disease that affects people in exactly the way Mark is behaving in this video, i.e. irrationally, aggressively, unpredictably.