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Researchers trying to diagnose CTE during life, recruit former football players
Boston University researchers hope they can tackle the mystery of how to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in ...
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As denials pile up, NFL settlement ignores ‘critical’ tests
“CTE can only be diagnosed post-mortem,” Karp wrote. “Right now there is no known way to use MRI … or other brain imaging methods to definitively diagnose CTE.” But while scans can’t ...
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Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome: application of new criteria to a cohort exposed to repetitive head impacts
One of the difficulties in studying CTE had been the lack of an agreed on clinical diagnostic ... it does seem to separate a group that show volumetric differences on MRI imaging. A variety of ...
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Psilocybin Shows Promise in Repairing Brain Damage from Mild Head Trauma
MRI scans revealed that the rats treated ... common in contact sports and military service—can lead to chronic traumatic ...