CTE Investigators Launch $16 Million Study
A former football player describes brain disease symptoms and angst Tim Fox, the 62-year-old former New England Patriots safety, was describing to a room full of brain scientists at the Boston University School of Medicine (MED) the ferocious style of play that he’d been trained in from an early age, one that had led to […]
Diagnosing CTE During Life
$16 million to detect brain trauma disease in living victims Robert Stern, a MED professor and clinical core director of BU’s NIH-funded Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center. Photo courtesy of Stern. Researchers from Boston University, the Cleveland Clinic, the Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have been awarded a $16 million grant […]