Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center conducts high-impact, innovative research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy and other long-term consequences of repetitive brain trauma in athletes, military personnel, first responders, victims of physical violence, and others affected by head trauma. The mission of the CTE Center is to conduct state-of-the-art research on CTE, including its neuropathology and pathogenesis, clinical presentation, genetics and other risk factors, biomarkers, methods of detection during life, and methods of prevention and treatment.
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Shape analysis of the amygdala, hippocampus and thalamus in former American football players
John, O., Wickham, A., Jung, L. B., Mirmajlesi, A. S., Stearns, J., Breedlove, K., Kim, N., Daneshvar, D. H., Billah, T., Read more
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Peripheral blood transcriptome signatures indicate environmental influences in monozygotic twins discordant for Alzheimer’s disease
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Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease are upregulated in patients with diabetic retinopathy
Subramanian, M. L., Sampani, K., Ness, S., Tuz-Zahra, F., Alluri, S., Chen, X., Siegel, N. H., Aytan, N., Xia, W., Tripodis, Read more