A designer version of the tau protein, developed by a team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, maintains its ...
Analyzed 174 donated brains, including from former high school, college football players Larger studies needed to understand how p-tau relates to aging and the extent to which repetitive impact from ...
Researchers published, what they say is the first case of a living person identified with the degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. While unnamed in the study, lead ...
A designer version of the tau protein, developed by a team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers, maintains its ...
NIH-supported researchers found a 56% loss of specific neurons in athletes exposed to repeated head impacts. Brain changes appeared even without the tau protein buildup typically linked to chronic ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Dr. Gil Rabinovici, a leading neurologist at UC San Francisco, has examined "thousands, if not 10s of thousands" human brains. On a recent day in his ground-floor Mission Bay office, ...
(CNN) -- Four former soccer players who had advanced forms of dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study published Tuesday. Chronic traumatic ...
In recent years, some scientists and advocates have warned that playing contact sports like football and hockey may increase the risk of brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease or chronic traumatic ...