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Brain Injury Eyed in Penn Player's Suicide

Concussion-related brain disease found in Owen Thomas, 21

(Newser) - Doctors have discovered signs of a trauma-related brain disease in a University of Pennsylvania football player who killed himself earlier this year. The doctor who conducted the autopsy on Owen Thomas says that while chronic traumatic encephalopathy—CTE—shouldn't be considered the main cause of the 21-year-old athlete's suicide, the...

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