“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 ...

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 ...

it does provide the first in vivo evidence that repeated head impacts lead to traumatic effects in the locations where CTE pathology ultimately develops." The researchers compared brain MRI scans ...