Why is it not possible to diagnose a (progressive) neurodegenerative disease like CTE while a person is still alive?
Was a possible, but yet undiagnosed mental illness used as an excuse for mayhem by the killer?
What other treatment options were available to this killer before he committed the mass shooting? What was the responsibility of this killer?
It may not be possible to prevent a seriously, but dangerous mentally ill person from acquiring a gun in the US.
"The gunman who killed four people in a Manhattan office shooting this week said in a note that he believed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), the degenerative disease that stems from repeated hits to the head.
It is unclear whether he had the condition, as it can only be diagnosed posthumously in an autopsy. But the violence has brought renewed attention to CTE—along with scrutiny about how the shooter was able to access a gun despite documented mental health hospitalizations, and deploy it in a city with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation ...
Concerns about CTE and full-contact sports have been building for two decades, as more studies have shown how repeated blows to the head lead to the buildup of brain-damaging proteins ..."
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