CTE Theory and Litigation: Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

By Rudy J. Castellani MD, Professor of Pathology and Neuroscience, West Virginia University and Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute   I am a neuropathologist. In my practice, I diagnose diseases of the nervous system. In living patients, this may involve interpretation of brain tissue samples that could fit on the head of a pin. I also diagnose nervous system diseases involving entire human brains, often at the request of forensic pathologists charged with the task of determining cause and m