Australian researchers have identified the first case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a female athlete. The brain injury has been commonly found in American football players and other contact sport athletes, but the discovery of the condition in a female athlete is a first. Heather Anderson was an Australian rules football player who died by suicide last year at 28. An analysis of her brain found that she had early stage CTE, caused by repeated head trauma. "There were multiple CTE lesions as well as abnormalities nearly everywhere I looked in her cortex," researcher Michael Buckland, director of the Australian Brain Sports Bank, told The Washington Post. "It was ind
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