Publication Database
Welcome to our Publication Database! For the last 15 years, the Boston University CTE Center has made great progress in CTE research and published many papers on CTE and those affected by it, including athletes, military personnel, and victims of domestic violence. Please check back soon – we are continuously adding papers and will soon have a complete list of our publications below.
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Age at First Exposure to Tackle Football is Associated with Cortical Thickness in Former Professional American Football Players
Cerebral Cortex | Kaufmann D, Sollmann N, Kaufmann E, Veggeberg R, Tripodis Y, Wrobel PP, Kochsiek J, Martin BM, Lin Read more
The Second NINDS/NIBIB Consensus Meeting to Define Neuropathological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology | Bieniek KF, Cairns NJ, Crary JF, Dickson DW, Folkerth RD, Keene CD, Litvan Read more
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Seminars in Neurology | Mez J, Stern RA, McKee AC. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Semin Neurol. 2020 Aug;40(4):351-352. doi: 10.1055/s-0040-1715824. Epub Read more
Reply to “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and Primary Age-Related Tauopathy”
Annals of Neurology | Mez J, Daneshvar DH, Alosco ML, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Stein TD, McKee AC. Reply to Read more
Characterizing tau deposition in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE): utility of the McKee CTE staging scheme
Acta Neuropathologica | Alosco ML, Cherry JD, Huber BR, Tripodis Y, Baucom Z, Kowall NW, Saltiel N, Goldstein LE, Katz Read more
Neuropathological profile of long-duration amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in military Veterans
Brain Pathology (Zurich, Switzerland) | Spencer KR, Foster ZW, Rauf NA, Guilderson L, Collins D, Averill JG, Walker SE, Robey Read more
The Neuropathology of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: The Status of the Literature
Seminars in Neurology | McKee AC. The Neuropathology of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: The Status of the Literature. Semin Neurol. 2020 Read more
Duration of American Football Play and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Annals of Neurology | Mez J, Daneshvar DH, Abdolmohammadi B, Chua AS, Alosco ML, Kiernan PT, Evers L, Marshall L, Read more
The neuropathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Handbook of Clinical Neurology | McKee AC, Abdolmohammadi B, Stein TD. The neuropathology of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Handb Clin Neurol. Read more
Variation in TMEM106B in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Acta Neuropathologica Communications | Cherry JD, Mez J, Crary JF, Tripodis Y, Alvarez VE, Mahar I, Huber BR, Alosco ML, Read more
Astrocytic degeneration in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Acta Neuropathologica | Hsu ET, Gangolli M, Su S, Holleran L, Stein TD, Alvarez VE, McKee AC, Schmidt RE, Brody Read more
Age of first exposure to tackle football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Annals of Neurology | Alosco ML, Mez J, Tripodis Y, Kiernan PT, Abdolmohammadi B, Murphy L, Kowall NW, Stein TD, Read more
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Is Latency in Symptom Onset Explained by Tau Propagation?
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine | Kriegel J, Papadopoulos Z, McKee AC. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Is Latency in Symptom Read more
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players-Reply
JAMA | McKee AC, Mez J, Abdolmohammadi B. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Football Players-Reply. JAMA. 2017 Dec 19;318(23):2353. doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.16687. Read more
Age of first exposure to American football and long-term neuropsychiatric and cognitive outcomes
Translational Psychiatry | Alosco ML, Kasimis AB, Stamm JM, Chua AS, Baugh CM, Daneshvar DH, Robbins CA, Mariani M, Hayden Read more
Psychiatric phenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | Mahar I, Alosco ML, McKee AC. Psychiatric phenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. Read more
VA’s National PTSD Brain Bank: a National Resource for Research
Current Psychiatry Reports | Friedman MJ, Huber BR, Brady CB, Ursano RJ, Benedek DM, Kowall NW, McKee AC; Traumatic Stress Read more
Clinicopathological Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Players of American Football
JAMA | Mez J, Daneshvar DH, Kiernan PT, Abdolmohammadi B, Alvarez VE, Huber BR, Alosco ML, Solomon TM, Nowinski CJ, Read more
Cumulative Head Impact Exposure Predicts Later-Life Depression, Apathy, Executive Dysfunction, and Cognitive Impairment in Former High School and College Football Players
Journal of Neurotrauma | Montenigro PH, Alosco ML, Martin BM, Daneshvar DH, Mez J, Chaisson CE, Nowinski CJ, Au R, Read more
The first NINDS/NIBIB consensus meeting to define neuropathological criteria for the diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Acta Neuropathologica | McKee AC, Cairns NJ, Dickson DW, Folkerth RD, Keene CD, Litvan I, Perl DP, Stein TD, Vonsattel Read more
Assessing clinicopathological correlation in chronic traumatic encephalopathy: rationale and methods for the UNITE study
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy | Mez J, Solomon TM, Daneshvar DH, Murphy L, Kiernan PT, Montenigro PH, Kriegel J, Abdolmohammadi B, Read more
Clinical subtypes of chronic traumatic encephalopathy: literature review and proposed research diagnostic criteria for traumatic encephalopathy syndrome
Alzheimer's Research & Therapy | Montenigro PH, Baugh CM, Daneshvar DH, Mez J, Budson AE, Au R, Katz DI, Cantu Read more
Self-reported concussion history: impact of providing a definition of concussion
Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine | Robbins CA, Daneshvar DH, Picano JD, Gavett BE, Baugh CM, Riley DO, Nowinski CJ, Read more
Profile of Self-Reported Problems with Executive Functioning in College and Professional Football Players
Journal of Neurotrauma | Seichepine DR, Stamm JM, Daneshvar DH, Riley DO, Baugh CM, Gavett BE, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Read more
The spectrum of disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Brain: A Journal of Neurology | McKee AC, Stern RA, Nowinski CJ, Stein TD, Alvarez VE, Daneshvar DH, Lee HS, Read more
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in blast-exposed military veterans and a blast neurotrauma mouse model
Science Translational Medicine | Goldstein LE, Fisher AM, Tagge CA, Zhang XL, Velisek L, Sullivan JA, Upreti C, Kracht JM, Read more
TDP-43 proteinopathy and motor neuron disease in chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology | McKee AC, Gavett BE, Stern RA, Nowinski CJ, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Perl Read more
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in athletes: progressive tauopathy after repetitive head injury
Journal of Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology | McKee AC, Cantu RC, Nowinski CJ, Hedley-Whyte ET, Gavett BE, Budson AE, Santini VE, Lee Read more