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"Concussion and CTE Research"

  • WCBS 1010 WINS
  • New York, NY
  • (October 03, 2016)

A study led by Sam Gandy, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Cognitive Health at The Mount Sinai Hospital and 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.