Scientists may have found a way to diagnose CTE in football players while they're still alive
by By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Sep 26, 2017
3 minutes
It is a humbling but very motivating fact that a person currently has to die before doctors can make a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease that afflicts many professional football players and other athletes who have sustained repeated blows to the head.
After all, if it were possible to diagnose CTE in the living, those athletes and the physicians who care for them could probably do something useful with that knowledge.
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