This article was submitted to Yahoo Sports by Peter Cummings, a forensic pathologist and a neuropathologist who for the longest time did not want his son to play football. When his son caught the football bug and wanted to play, Peter used his profession as a "brain scientist" to research chronic traumatic encphalopathy (CTE) to better understand its relationship to football.
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