Absence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in retired football players with multiple concussions and neurological symptomatology

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Hazrati, Lili Naz ^a,b   Tartaglia, Maria C ^b,c   Diamandis, Phedias ^a   Davis, Karen D ^a,c,d   Green, Robin E ^e   Wennberg, Richard ^c   Wong, Janice C ^a,b   Ezerins, Leo ^e   Tator, Charles H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy; Dementia; Neurodegenerative disease; Professional athletes; Repetitive brain injury

Indexed keywords

TAR DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN CONCUSSION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CHRONIC TRAUMATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FOOTBALL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROFIBRILLARY TANGLE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; TAUOPATHY;

EID: 84890448682     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00222     Document Type: Article

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