"Because, perhaps the most disconcerting statistic is one that we already know: every 2.6 years of participation in football doubles the chances of developing CTE, in large part because a typical high school or college football season can deliver between 600 and 1,000 subconcussive blows to a single athlete, and that these blows heavily predict later-life clinical depression, apathy, executive dysfunction and cognitive impairment."
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First seen: 2026-09-06 ·
Last seen: 2026-09-06 ·
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