Brain imaging may be crucial to early CTE detection

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is receiving a lot of press after presenting findings that a brain imaging agent named [F-18]FDDNP PET may detect various stages of CTE in living people.

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Researchers used the scans in retired professional American football players with suspected CTE and compared the results with cognitively intact peoples and patients with Alzheimer’s.

 

You can see the full abstract here.

 

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