Headline News BU-Harvard Collaboration on Virtual Brain Biopsy May Lead to Early CTE Diagnosis
"The only way we can get to the point of studying potential treatments is to be able to diagnose it during life," said Robert Stern, a study co-author and a director of the Boston University center studying CTE.
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BU research, Dr. McKee Featured in Recent Sports Illustrated Cover Story
"I can say confidently that this is a distinctive disorder that you don't develop in the general population," McKee said. "In fact, I have never seen this disease in any person who doesn't have the kind of repetitive head trauma that football players would have."
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Hockey Study Finds 7x More Concussions by Looking a New Way - Cantu Co-author
 "A huge percentage of players in collision sports don't report their symptoms, and doctors and trainers on the sideline often can't see them," Cantu said. "But trained observers in the stands could see the big hits and players' reactions after big hits, and they had the ability to come down and examine the players and hold them out of the game if they showed signs of concussion."
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Cantu and Nowinski Debate in Time Magazine
 "If they were truly taught to tackle like a rugby player - allowing shoulder strikes, say, but banning head tackles - they could adapt. And would the NFL lose a single fan?"
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