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Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler has been added to the growing list of NFL players afflicted by the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Michael Keck was 25 when he died in 2013. A former football star at Harrisonville High and later Missouri and Missouri State, he left behind wife Cassandra and son Justin.
Brain scientists are reporting new clues on how the disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) attacks the brains of athletes and combat soldiers. CTE is a degenerative brain disease caused by concussions and other repeat brain trauma. The disease can only be diagnosed in autopsy, but there have been reports of emotional changes and Alzheimer's-like symptoms in some athletes prior to their posthumous diagnoses.