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Ann McKee, director Boston
University’s center for research
into the degenerative brain bayne
disease chronic traumatic
encephalopathy, or CTE,
addresses an audience on the
school’s campus Thursday,
Nov. 9, 2017, about the study
of NFL football player Aaron
Hernandez’s brain, in Boston.
Associated Press
Hernandez’s

brain was

severely

damaged

by disease

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) — Former
New England Patriots play-
er Aaron Hernandez suf-
fered substantial damage
to parts of the brain that
affect memory, judgment
and behavior from the
most severe case of a de-
generative disease linked
to head blows ever found
in someone so young, a re-
searcher said Thursday.
Dr. Ann McKee, direc- Despite more injuries,
tor of Boston University’s
CTE Center, stressed she
could not “connect the
dots” between the brain Celtics beat L.A.
disease chronic traumatic
encephalopathy and the
behavior of the 27-year-
old who hanged himself Boston Celtics center
in April while serving life Aron Baynes dunks over
in prison for murder. But
McKee said CTE had signii- Los Angeles Lakers’
cantly impacted key parts Brandon Ingram (14)
of Hernandez’s brain, in- during the third quarter
cluding the hippocampus of Boston’s 107-96 win in
— which is associated with an NBA basketball game
memory — and the frontal in Boston Wednesday,
lobe, which is involved in Nov. 8, 2017.
impulse control, judgment Associated Press
and behavior. Page 20
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