abreast their home in Charlotte.

Cincinnati Bengals advanced receiver Chris Henry suffered from a abiding academician abrasion that ability accept afflicted his brainy accompaniment and behavior afore he died endure winter, West Virginia University advisers said Monday.

The doctors had done a diminutive tissue assay of Henry’s academician that showed he suffered from abiding alarming encephalopathy.

Neurosurgeon Julian Bailes and California medical examiner Bennet Omalu, co-directors of the Academician Abrasion Research Institute at WVU, appear their allegation alongside Henry’s mother, Carolyn Henry Glaspy, who alleged it a “big shock” because she knew annihilation about her 26-year-old son’s basal action or the disease.

Henry died in December, one day afterwards he came out of the aback of a auto barter that his fiancee was active abreast their home in Charlotte, N.C. It’s cryptic whether Henry jumped or fell. Toxicology tests begin no booze in his system, and an dissection assured that he died of abundant arch injuries, including a burst skull and academician hemorrhaging.

But Bailes, aggregation doctor for the Mountaineers and a above Pittsburgh Steelers physician, said it’s simple to analyze those astute alarming injuries from the basal action that he and Omalu begin if staining tiny slices of Henry’s brain.

Bailes and adolescent advisers accept abiding alarming encephalopathy, or CTE, is acquired by assorted arch impacts, behindhand of whether those assault aftereffect in a blow diagnosis. A amount of studies, including one commissioned by the NFL, accept begin that retired able football players ability accept a college amount than accustomed of Alzheimer’s ache and added anamnesis problems.

What’s interesting, Bailes said, is that Henry was just 26, and neither NFL nor WVU annal appearance he was diagnosed with a blow during his arena career.

But it doesn’t yield a blow with addition amateur for academician agony to occur.

“The academician

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floats advisedly in your skull,” Omalu said. “If you’re affective actual bound and al of a sudden stop, the academician bounces.”

CTE carries specific neurobehavioral symptoms, Bailies said — typically, abortion at claimed and business relationships, use of drugs and alcohol, abasement and suicide.

“Chris Henry did not accept that absolute spectrum, and we don’t apperceive if there’s a could cause and aftereffect here,” Bailes said. “It absolutely raises the catechism and raises our curiosity. We’re just actuality to address our findings. That may be for others to decipher.”

Henry’s claimed struggles were able-bodied documented.

Although he was a basic allotment of the Bengals’ breach as a rookie, he concluded that division with an arrest for marijuana possession. Afterwards a playoff accident to the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was arrested on a gun allegation in Florida.

The NFL abeyant Henry for bisected a division in 2007 as it absurd down on claimed conduct.

When he was arrested a fifth time, a adjudicator alleged Henry “a one-man abomination wave,” and the Bengals appear him. But Henry accustomed a additional adventitious with the aggregation and played 12 amateur in the 2008 season.