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High Proportion of Deceased Football Players Found to Have CTE
A postmortem analysis of the brains of 202 former football players from the high-school to the professional level has revealed that 87% of these athletes had neuropathological signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) —a progressive neurodegenerative disorder associated with repetitive head trauma. Moreover, as reported today inJAMA, all but one of the brains of the former National Football League (NFL) players showed neuropathological signs of the disease.“Nearly all of the former NFL players in this study had CTE pathology, and this pathology was frequently severe,” wrote senior author Ann McKee, M.D., of the...
Source: Psychiatr News - July 25, 2017 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Ann McKee chronic traumatic encephalopathy CTE football neurodegeneration NFL Source Type: research

Framingham Study Suggests Dementia Rates May Be Falling
Many experts predict that as people live longer, the prevalence of dementia will climb. However, a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine now suggests the incidence of dementia may be falling.Researchers from Boston University School Medicine analyzed data from 5,205 people aged 60 and older who were participants in the Framingham Heart Study, a community-based, longitudinal cohort study that was initiated in 1948. Since 1975, the cognitive status of the original cohort has been regularly monitored via the Mini-Mental State Examination, neurological and neuropsychological examinations, and subjective memory...
Source: Psychiatr News - February 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Tags: dementia Framingham Heart Study stroke risk Source Type: research