Summary:A Mount Sinai study found that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is rare among individuals with isolated or limited brain injuries and predominantly observed in those with extensive repetitive head impacts. Key Takeaways: Of 47 postmortem brain samples...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a degenerative brain disease linked to the repetitive head impacts that athletes get from playing contact sports. According to a new preliminary study, each additional year of playing ice hockey may increase a...
A study published in Human Gene Therapy suggests the feasibility of using gene therapy to treat chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and demonstrates the effectiveness of direct delivery of gene therapy into the brain of a mouse model of CTE. There is currently no...
Younger, current fighters display different effects from head trauma in the brain compared to older, retired fighters, according to a new study published recently in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. As a group, both the current and...
A study published recently in Brain Pathology suggests that 6% of athletes and non-athletes were found to have the neurodegenerative disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). “Generally our findings point to CTE being more common in athletes and more...
