EL PASO: A great deal of recent research has explored the link between repetitive brain injury and dementia, but a new study claims to have found the onset of the disease occurs much earlier than suspected.
After studying a large group of deceased athletes and military veterans with a pathologically diagnosed neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy, researchers have concluded that such individuals were four times more likely to develop beta-amyloid deposits in their brains and that in general this occurred 10 to 15 years earlier than in the normal aging group…