“Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is the term used to describe a specific pattern of microscopic changes in the brain” according to a new fact sheet issued by the U.S. Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC).
“Some researchers have suggested that CTE is unique and associated with sub concussive blows to the head or concussions while others suggest the CTE is not unique.” Sub concussive impacts or blows have been described as hits to the head that do not reach the threshold of a concussion and do not cause an alteration or loss of consciousness or loss of memory for the injury event. In other words, this is a head trauma that does not rise to the level of causing immediate concussion symptoms. 110 out of 111 of the brains of ex-NFL football players showed objective evidence of CTE in players that had not been diagnosed with concussion injuries during their lifetime.
“There is no current test for CTE in the living. It can only be diagnosed at autopsy after a person is deceased.” A study conducted by the national institutes of health (NIH) concluded that there is only one finding specific to CTE, namely “an accumulation of abnormal hyperphosphorylated tau (P-TAU) in neurons and astroglia distributed around small blood vessels at the depths of cortical sulci and in an irregular pattern.”
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