a sign of CTE. That person had an average of twopartial seizureswith impaired awareness seizures a day, had seizures for 28 years before the surgery and had a history of mild head injuries related to seizures. In the brain tissue of the other nine patients, researchers found no...
Why is the choice of helmets left to the players? Why aren’t the safest helmets mandatory during the season? Imagine a seat belt law that gave motorists a choice of a dozen different seat belts, with the option to choose none at all also being in the mix. It looks to me like a ...
While attempts have been made to further define CTE, there remains debate about what the different observed changes in the brain mean. The challenge of agreement on CTE was highlighted in a2021 publicationwhen the United States' national institutes of neurological disorders and stroke, and biomedical...
CTE, Careers and the Human Brain: Implications of Brain Development and Vocational Maturity in Adolescents and Young AdultsHow many of us have ever changed our minds about career-related decisions? Maybe it was...Washer, BartWasher, B., Fedorchak, N., Shellhorn, S., & Wales, B. (2013)...
The largest study to date ofchronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)in young athletes shows that 41% had the neurodegenerative disease, caused by repetitive head impacts (RHIs). Analysis of brain tissue from athletes who were exposed to RHIs and died before the age of 30 revealed neuropathological...
Over the last 17 years, there has been a remarkable increase in scientific research concerning chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Since the p
Specifically, FDDNP showed up in the brain's amygdala and subcortical regions that control for learning, memory, behavior and emotions compared to what was seen in PET scans of healthy men. The researchers found the number of concussions a player said he suffered correlated with the amount of ...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma. And in the largest study of its kind,researchers at Boston Universitylooked at the brains of 152 young athletes who had been exposed to repetitive head impacts from youth, high school, or...
Military personnel show brain changes similar to those seen in retired football players with suspected CTE on PET scansResearchers are using the tracer, which is injected into a patient, then seen with a PET scan, to see if it is possible to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy i...
Dementia is a brain disorder. It may have no specific cause, or it may be caused by many disorders. Most dementia in older people is caused by Alzheimer disease Other brain problems that can cause dementia include: Blocked blood vessels in the brain (as from a stro...