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Last week at the Conference of the Traumatic Brain Injury Sixth Annual Arlington, Virginia, neurologist Samuel Gandy presented positron emission tomography a former player in the National Football League (PET) as proof "most spectacular" yet chronic traumatic encephalopathy in (CTE) in an individual room. "I've never seen anything like this," he said of the analysis, which used a PET tracer called T807 to reveal deposits of a sticky helical protein called tau in the brain of the player. The announcement could be an important step for imaging tau, a promising but controversial strategy for the diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease in living patients. If science pans, it could also transform the medical and legal status of CTE, which at present can not be officially diagnosed after death, when a pathologist looking tau in brain tissue.
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