Severe Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in a US Naval Special Warfare Combatant Crewman.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a tauopathy mostly observed following a history of repeated impact-type head injury, usually from contact sports. The overwhelming majority of published, high-stage CTE cases are in older, former high-level contact sport athletes. CTE was infrequent in a large case series of brains donated by military service members, wherein it was most often of minimal severity, while being unanimously present in former contact sport participants.

Objective

To describe the neuropathological examination of a brain donated from a US Naval special warfare combatant crewman (SWCC) who had a 12-year career.

Design, setting, and participants

This case study of a whole brain specimen donated after death from a 44.9-year-old military dono

SUBMITTER: Priemer DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12203286 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature