Why this neurologist doesn’t allow her kids to play football

Ann McKee is the director of Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center, and formerly served as the director of neuropathology at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Bedford, Mass. She discusses her past research into the disease in dozens of former football players. FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath.

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