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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former <keyword id="14344145" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="major-league-soccer" source="Orion">Major League Soccer</keyword> player, <keyword id="14344144" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="scott-vermillion" source="Orion">Scott Vermillion</keyword>, has been posthumously diagnosed with <keyword id="12737234" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cte" source="Orion">CTE</keyword>.</li><li>CTE is a progressive brain condition believed to be caused by repeated impacts to the head.</li></ul><p>A US soccer player who died in 2020 is the first to be officially diagnosed with CTE, a debilitating brain disorder more commonly associated with contact sports, like football.</p><p>The family of Scott Vermillion, who played for Major League Soccer (MLS) teams including the Kansas City Wizards, revealed Tuesday that he was diagnosed with stage 2 CTE by researchers at the Boston University CTE Center. It's the same center that diagnosed Aaron Hernandez, the NFL player who died by suicide after being convicted of murder. Hernandez <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/sports/aaron-hernandez-cte-brain.html">had stage 4 CTE</a>, the most severe case ever seen in someone in their 20s, according to BU.</p><p>CTE (or, chronic traumatic encephalopathy) is a progressive brain condition that is thought to be caused by repeated blows to the head.</p><p>While the condition can only be diagnosed by autopsy, people with CTE often suffer in life from memory loss, lack of impulse control, aggression, forms of dementia, suicidal ideation, and anxiety, Dr. Chris Nowinski, a neuroscientist and former football player, told Insider.</p><p>Vermillion died in December of 2020 from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 44, 19 years after the end of his professional career in 2001. His diagnosis adds to growing concerns about soccer's role in the development of the disease through repeated headers.</p><p>In the press release, Vermillion's family said the former player suffered from many of the mood changes associated with CTE after the end of his professional soccer career.</p><p>Cami Jones, Vermillion's ex-wife, told <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/sports/soccer/cte-soccer.html">The New York Times</a> that she watched Vermillion become more lethargic and prone to headaches even before he retired. In the ten years following his career, Vermillion's family reported increased impulse control issues, aggressiveness, and depression. These symptoms slowly worsened in the last decade of Vermillion's life as he experienced memory loss and struggled more and more with substance abuse, Jones told the Times. Vermillion's mother reached out to the BU's CTE Center soon after her son's death to have his brain examined by researchers, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/sports/soccer/cte-soccer.html">the Times reported.</a> </p><p>Experts told Insider that early detection of abnormalities through MRI brain scans, and reducing how often athletes are exposed to head trauma, can help address the condition. </p><h2>Researchers are calling for pre-season psych testing to catch cases early</h2><p>Although cases of CTE have most notably been linked with contact sports like American football, Vermillion's diagnosis, along with a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28205009/">2017 study from University College London on CTE in ex-soccer players</a>, revealed the disease may be more pervasive than previously thought in soccer as well.</p><p>"Yes, we have much more experience with American football players, we've now had hundreds and hundreds of players with CTE in American football. But we also do get American soccer players, ice hockey, rugby, wrestling, MMA, boxing, and we've definitely increasingly seen that CTE is a potential risk of playing soccer," said Dr. Ann Mckee, director of the Boston University CTE Center as well as chief of neuropathology for the VA Boston Healthcare System.</p><p>McKee, <a href="https://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5217563/ann-mckee-2/">who conducted some of the most important research on CTE over the last decade</a> and has diagnosed most of the high-profile CTE cases in NFL players to date, believes that pre- and post-season testing through neuropsychological exams, MRIs, and biomarkers could be a positive next step in addressing the condition.</p><p>"There's numerous studies now showing that in soccer, rugby, ice hockey, football, active players develop changes that can be detected after a single season. But we don't, as a rule, look for these. And you don't find a problem if you ignore it. And that's sort of the standard approach right now," McKee said.</p><h2>Put an age limit on heading for young soccer players, one neuroscientist says</h2><p>Nowinski told Insider that addressing CTE means limiting the amount of head impact players take throughout their life. He suggests raising the recommended minimum age at which children can start heading from 11 to 14 <a href="https://www.nbcsports.com/washington/soccer/us-soccer-bans-headers-children-under-age-10">under United States Soccer Federation rules</a>, which would give their brains more time to develop.</p><p>For anyone who believes they are suffering from CTE, there are steps you can take to treat your symptoms, says Nowinski.</p><p>"We can't yet stop the disease, but, depending on what you're dealing with, if it is caused by CTE, it likely can be made better,"  he said.</p><p>Doctors can help patients who are experiencing problems with memory, mood, anxiety, and sleep with medications, skill developments, and treatment, Nowinski said. Resources like the <a href="https://concussionfoundation.org/helpline">Concussion Legacy Foundation Helpline</a> can help.</p>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Boston University's <keyword id="12737234" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cte" source="Orion">CTE</keyword> Center diagnosed <keyword id="14411683" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="demaryius-thomas" source="Orion">Demaryius Thomas</keyword> Tuesday with stage 2 CTE.</li><li>Thomas was a retired <keyword id="11897660" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="nfl" source="Orion">NFL</keyword> wide receiver when he died at 33.</li></ul><p>On Tuesday, former NFL wide receiver Demaryius Thomas was diagnosed posthumously with CTE, a brain disease linked to repeated head trauma.</p><p>When he died in December, the Super Bowl champion was 33, and a recent retiree from the Denver Broncos. Dr. Ann McKee, the neuropathologist who studied his brain, said he had two conditions: CTE and seizures stemming from a 2019 car crash, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/sports/football/demaryius-thomas-cte-nfl.html">The New York Times reported</a>.</p><p>While his cause of death has not been determined, doctors believe Thomas died of suffocation after a seizure, according to The Times.</p><p>Seizures are not primarily associated with CTE, McKee said.</p><p>Friends and family said Thomas experienced many symptoms of CTE in his final year of life, including <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/05/sports/football/demaryius-thomas-cte-nfl.html">memory loss, increased erratic behavior, and paranoia</a>.</p><p>A week before Thomas' diagnosis, Scott Vermillion became the first Major League Soccer player <a href="https://www.insider.com/soccer-player-scott-vermillion-diagnosed-with-cte-after-overdose-death-2022-6">to be diagnosed with CTE</a>. Vermillion died in December 2020 from an accidental drug overdose and displayed similar erratic behavior and isolation in the years leading up to his death.</p><p>McKee told Insider there hadn't been enough action taken by major-league <keyword id="11893855" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="sports" source="Orion">sports</keyword> teams to protect players.</p><p>"There have been changes. The changes have not been enough," she said.</p><p>McKee said she believed rule changes, neuropsychological exams, MRIs, and blood biomarkers of players pre- and postseason could help prevent cases like Thomas' and Vermillion's. McKee said research was about five years out from identifying the disease in living people, which she hopes will bring more public awareness.</p><p>"Once we get people to actually listen long enough so that they understand who this is damaging, then we're going to see a change in the public demanding that the sports leagues do something about this disease," she said.</p>

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<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness_Act">signed the Wilderness Act</a>, one of the cornerstones of the conservation movement in America. <span>The Wilderness Act created the National Wilderness Preservation System through which the federal government has protected more than 100 million acres of wilderness. </span></p>
<p>To celebrate the anniversary, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History recently conducted the Wilderness Forever photography competition.</p>
<p class="p1"><span>The Smithsonian selected 50 winning photos from</span> 5,000 entries from professional, amateur, and student photographers across the country. <span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">Each photo was taken within a U.S. wilderness area.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The Smithsonian has shared a selection of the winners with us, but </span><a href="http://wilderness.smithsonian.com/vote/vote-180952419/"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;"></span>you can check out more entries in the contest and vote for your favorites</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">. Every month, the Smithsonian will feature the entry that receives that most votes. </span></p>
<h3>A Red Fox frolics in Denali National Park in Alaska during autumn. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>An adult male Snowy Owl is wide awake at dawn in Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness Area. Otis Pike is the only federally designated wilderness area in New York.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Colorful petrified sand dunes of White Pocket tower over Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs in Arizona. White Pocket is a notoriously hard-to-reach patch of sandstone near the Arizona-Utah border. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>Proxy Falls cascades down to a moss-covered forest in Three Sisters Wilderness in Oregon. The Three Sisters are a series of three volcanoes. Two out of three of the volcanoes are inactive.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>A lone paddler watches the sun set upon the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Superior National Forest in Minnesota. The area is renowned for its fishing and canoeing.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>This path winds through the Aurora Ridge Trail in Olympic Wilderness Area in Washington. The Olympic Wilderness contains some of the most pristine forests left in the U.S. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>The Milky Way sparkles over Second Beach in Olympic Wilderness. Second Beach is one of the most popular beaches in the Olympics. It is home to a labyrinth of tide pools, as well as bald and golden eagles and seals.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>
<h3>A brown bear in Alaska's Katmai National Park.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div>A herd of mountain goats huddle together on top of Mount Evans, Colorado, during a lightning storm. Mount Evans is one of 53 mountains in Colorado over 14,000 feet high. It is the closest to Denver.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div><p></p></div></div></h3>

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