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Researchers Are One Step Closer to Diagnosing CTE during Life, Rather Than after Death

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A new BU CTE Center paper connects cognitive and behavioral symptoms to protein buildup in the brain that marks the disease.

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Young Amateur Athletes at Risk of CTE, BU Study Finds

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After studying the brains of more than 150 contact sports participants—mostly football, soccer, and ice hockey—who had died under age 30, more than 40 percent of them showed signs of the degenerative brain disease, including the first American woman soccer player to be diagnosed.

Tagged: BUMC, CAMED, cognitive development, CTE, disease, exercise, football, health, neurology, neuroscience, News, research, soccer, sports, veterans

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