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"Researchers Make Progress Toward Identifying CTE in the Living"

  • The New York Times
  • New York, NY
  • (September 27, 2016)

One of the frustrations of researchers who study chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head hits, is that it can be detected only in autopsies, and not in the living. A study published in the journal Translational Psychiatry focused on a 39-year-old former N.F.L. player who had sustained 22 concussions. Doctors at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York said PET scans revealed that the biomarker AV1451 bound to the parts of the player’s brain in the same way as in people diagnosed with C.T.E. posthumously. Learn more.