Scientists may have found a way to diagnose CTE in football players while they're still alive

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....

Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - September 27, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Melissa Healy Source Type: news