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The National Football League and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Legal Implications

Caleb Korngold, Helen M. Farrell and Manish Fozdar
Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Online September 2013, 41 (3) 430-436;
Caleb Korngold
Dr. Korngold is a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chief Resident, Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Farrell is Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Staff Psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Fozdar is in private practice, Triangle Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Raleigh, NC, Consulting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
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Helen M. Farrell
Dr. Korngold is a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chief Resident, Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Farrell is Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Staff Psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Fozdar is in private practice, Triangle Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Raleigh, NC, Consulting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
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Manish Fozdar
Dr. Korngold is a Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Chief Resident, Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Farrell is Instructor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and Staff Psychiatrist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. Dr. Fozdar is in private practice, Triangle Forensic Neuropsychiatry, Raleigh, NC, Consulting Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, and Adjunct Assistant Clinical Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
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    There is a diagnosis of CTE.
    Symptoms include depression, behavioral changes and other psychiatric/behavioral issues as a result of CTE.
    Suicide resulted from severe depression secondary to CTE.
    There was a substantial business loss due to cognitive dysfunction secondary to CTE.
    CTE led to violence through behavioral and cognitive changes.
    CTE and its consequences resulted in inability to work and hence lost wages/income.
    Risk of developing Alzheimer type dementia is increased as a result of CTE.
    Testamentary capacity could be impaired at the time of creating the will secondary to CTE.
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