It involves a Boston University study of athletes who played contact sports — like football — as children and died before turning 30, many by suicide. The Times has just published an interactive article about the study, including childhood videos of the athletes and filmed interviews with their parents. “The voices and demons in my head just started to take over everything I wanted to do,” Bramwell tells the camera as he sits in the driver’s seat of his car. He was one of the 152 athletes whose brains the Boston University researchers studied. Of the 63, 48 had played football, while others had wrestled or played hockey or soccer.

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Persons: Wyatt Bramwell, ” Bramwell, Bramwell Organizations: Boston University, Times