Effects of repeated head trauma causing mental health problems including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes
Student, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, USA
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Cognitive Disorders, Kinesiology, Neurology, Psychiatry and Psychology
- Keywords
- Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, concussion, head trauma, athlete, CTE, contact sports, combat sports
- Copyright
- © 2014 Briles
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Effects of repeated head trauma causing mental health problems including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in athletes. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e251v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.251v1
Abstract
This paper focuses on the effects of repeated head trauma in athletes and how these repetitive blows to the head are causing a range of mental health problems. The primary focus, in terms of problems addressed, is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (often referred to as CTE) in the population of athletes, especially those participating in contact and combat sports. The disorders covered are caused by the cumulative effects of both concussive and sub-concussive blows to the head over a period of time.