Monthly Archives: November 2022

MUHAMMAD ALI’S ILLNESS: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or Parkinson disease? Many, including myself, doubted the nineteen-eighties diagnosis of Muhammad Ali’s disabling illness as Parkinson’s disease. Instead, I assumed he must have had Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) as a result of many blows to his head during his stellar boxing career. CTE in those days was known as ‘dementia pugilistica’ or ‘punch-drunk syndrome’. This tragic condition has now been found to be more common than previously thought in association with several…..

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