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Sep 25, 2002 · Mike Webster, whose Hall of Fame pro football career was followed by more than decade of physical and psychological turmoil apparently brought on by repeated blows to head on field, dies at age...
Michael Lewis Webster (March 18, 1952 – September 24, 2002) was an American football center in the National Football League (NFL) from 1974 to 1990 with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Kansas City Chiefs. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, class of 1997.
Michael Webster is a vision scientist who studies the cognitive and neural processes that underlie how we see. Much of his work focuses on characterizing how our perception adapts when the environment changes (e.g we move to a drier climate) or we change (e.g. as we age).
Dec 2, 2015 · Mike Webster’s brain sat for two weeks in a white plastic bucket of formaldehyde at the morgue.
Dec 23, 2015 · Mike Webster died of a heart attack at age 50 on September 24, 2002, at a Pittsburgh hospital. This undersized six-foot-two athlete, who through force of will turned himself into “Iron Mike,” led a life of extraordinary career highs—followed by a slowly devastating decline. The years of being butted repeatedly on the head took a brutal toll.
Jul 30, 2021 · Webster, the first former NFL player diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by Dr. Bennet Omalu, has become a symbol for the NFL’s brain-injury crisis that has carried over into ...
Oct 6, 2013 · Inside Mike Webster’s brain, he’d make a startling discovery: a disease never previously identified in football players. The condition, known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, was...
