As denials pile up, NFL settlement ignores ‘critical’ tests
An autopsy found CTE that had caused atrophy — tissue death so extensive that portions of his brain had shrunk, a telltale ...
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: How serious a sports problem is it?
especially non-invasive ones such as advanced MRI or MR spectroscopy or invasive ones such as blood or cerebrospinal fluid tests. The major questions that remain unanswered include the frequency of ...
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Common move used in soccer may brain damage akin to CTE: study
“The abnormalities occur in the locations most characteristic of CTE, are associated with worse ... This new study utilized an approach using diffusion MRI technology to analyze the ...
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Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome: application of new criteria to a cohort exposed to repetitive head impacts
Objective To examine the characteristics of those who fulfil the recent National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS) Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy ...