New BU research could help experts diagnose CTE before death
Researchers at BU have linked certain cognitive symptoms to CTE, moving a step closer to being able to diagnose the disease during life.
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Researchers at BU have linked certain cognitive symptoms to CTE, moving a step closer to being able to diagnose the disease during life.
BU’s CTE Center publishes a new paper that connects cognitive and behavioral symptoms to CTE pathology in the brain.
Researchers have taken a step closer to being able to diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy in living patients, rather than after death.
While specialists still debate the diagnostics of impaired cognition, the identification of patients at the earliest stages is beginning to be met through new biomarkers and available assays.
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