After examining the brains of former professional football players, researchers might be a step closer to diagnosing the devastating brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the living, according to a new study
After examining the brains of former professional football players, researchers might be a step closer to diagnosing the devastating brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the living, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The researchers utilized PET imaging to find tau, an abnormal protein that's a signature indicator of CTE, using a radioactive drug or tracer called flortaucipir. The researchers imaged the brains of 26 living former football players and compared them with the brains of 31 people with no history of traumatic brain injury. The brains of the former players were more likely to light up and signal tau deposits than those of people who hadn't had a brain injury.
Stern has been vocal about his concerns about links between football and CTE, testifying before Congress in 2014 and 2017 about the dangers of repeated head trauma. A 2016 congressional report found that when the NFL learned that Stern's research proposal had been selected by the National Institutes of Health as part of a NIH-NFL grant partnership, the NFL tried to pull its funding. Ultimately, the National Institutes of Health funded Stern's work.
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