TruCane81
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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 memory or executive functioning, or neurobehavioral dysregulation including explosiveness, impulsivity, rage, violent outbursts, and emotional lability, or both. - check
I'm pretty certain that the cognitive issues, like memory problems, would also show up if he were to take a neuropsych exam.
Which differential diagnosis do you propose?
This same exact thing happens to guys who don’t play, but if a cte diagnosis gets him help faster, I’m all for it.