“I am concerned that this game played by hundreds of millions across the globe might be played in a way that could lead to later-life brain disease.” Hear more from Dr. Robert Stern on the growing concerns of CTE in Soccer.
The autopsy, performed by Dr. Ann McKee, a neuropathologist in neuro-degenerative disease at Boston University, shows the 47-year-old had Stage 2 Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease, likely caused by repeated head traumas.
WATCH Video: BU CTE Center Clinical Director, Dr. Robert Stern, and others talk about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy at a CurePSP’s conference. Three families also join the experts in a panel discussion and talk about their experience with CTE and the impact it has had on their families.
Ann McKee, a William Fairfield Warren professor, described the path that led her to become a physician and scientist and how she came to research chronic traumatic encephalopathy during her address at the School of Medicine MD/PhD Convocation May 16.
Congraulations to Dr. Ann McKee, Director of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, for being named a finalist for the 2019 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Career Achievement.
Ann McKee, MD, is Professor of Neurology and Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, Director of Neuropathology for VA Boston, and Director of the BU Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center.
Researchers led by Boston University have taken a step forward in finding a way to diagnose the degenerative brain disease known as CTE in living people, advancing the understanding of an illness that now can only be confirmed after death.
In a recent blog, Gates wrote, “I recently met a researcher named Rhoda Au who is working on some seriously cool ways to detect Alzheimer’s. If her research proves successful, we might one day predict whether you will get the disease by simply listening to the sound of your voice or watching how you write with a pen.”
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A study published last week in the scientific journal Nature provides new evidence of the tau formations in the brains of individuals with CTE and how they differ from other diseases.