Younger adults with difficult-to-treat epilepsy may have early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in their brain tissue, but it appears to be uncommon, according to a small, preliminary ...

Younger adults with difficult-to-treat epilepsy may have early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in their brain tissue, but it appears to be uncommon, according to a small, preliminary study.

CTE can’t be seen by the naked eye, and it takes at least three weeks to prepare slides of the brain tissue. CTE is caused by tau, a protein in the brain released as a result of head trauma.

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Dec. 3, 2012— -- On the heels of the latest NFL suicide, researchers announced today that 34 NFL players whose brain were studied suffered from CTE, a degenerative brain disease brought on by ...

For now, the only way to diagnose it is by examining a patient’s brain tissue after death. Some of the hits that cause CTE may result in concussion, Goldstein said.

Dr. Agus on new football brain study: "This is a major issue" 03:21 CHICAGO -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of brain disease in nearly all of them, from athletes in the ...

In nearly 9 out of 10 of those professional athletes — 86% — researchers found the telltale brain abnormalities of CTE were extensive, varied and scattered throughout the brain.

What We Know About CTE. CTE is a progressive brain disease linked to repetitive trauma. It causes a buildup of abnormal tau protein in brain tissue, disrupting how the brain works.

(Because it requires an examination of the brain tissue, CTE currently can only be diagnosed posthumously.) “Why would a researcher jump to ‘the media’ when trying to draw conclusions out of their ...

Among a brain bank sample of 152 young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI) who died when they were under 30 years old, 41.4% (63 athletes) had neuropathological evidence of CTE — a ...

Younger adults with difficult-to-treat epilepsy may have early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in their brain tissue, but it appears to be uncommon, according to a small, preliminary ...