A report today issued by researchers of the Brain Injury Research Institute, an organization affiliated with West Virginia University, suggest former Bengals WR Chris Henry suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CRE).
CRE is said to be caused by repeated trauma to the brain and is thought to cause emotional disturbances, depression, failed personal relationships and businesses, suicidal thoughts, and sometimes alcohol or drug use.
The most common way to diagnose the disease before death tends to be the analysis of the individuals behavior. Once deceased, the brain is studied and threaded, clumpy sections of the examined brain can be found to clearly indicate the disease.
Henry reported jumped or fell from the back of a truck his girlfriend was driving during an altercation between the two. Neighbors report that Henry had previously stated that if she left he would jump from the truck, killing himself.
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