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SUBMITTER: Barrio JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4413350 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barrio Jorge R JR Small Gary W GW Wong Koon-Pong KP Huang Sung-Cheng SC Liu Jie J Merrill David A DA Giza Christopher C CC Fitzsimmons Robert P RP Omalu Bennet B Bailes Julian J Kepe Vladimir V
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150406 16
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is an acquired primary tauopathy with a variety of cognitive, behavioral, and motor symptoms linked to cumulative brain damage sustained from single, episodic, or repetitive traumatic brain injury (TBI). No definitive clinical diagnosis for this condition exists. In this work, we used [F-18]FDDNP PET to detect brain patterns of neuropathology distribution in retired professional American football players with suspected CTE (n = 14) and compared results with ...[more]