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Last year, several media reported that after having his brain scanned at the University of California, Los Angeles, former National Football League (NFL) running back Tony Dorsett said he was showing signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ( CTE), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated blows to the head. The bomb Dorsett alarmed many researchers ETC: Despite a widespread belief that the neurodegenerative disease CTE is common among athletes in high-impact sports, there is no proven method of diagnosis CTE while that a person is alive. High-stakes lawsuits, including those filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease in people, but these efforts have just crossed the line initially, the researchers said last week at a brain injury conference trauma in Washington, DC Only in the past month they have reached a consensus on this CTE looks like in post-mortem brain tissue, the results presented this week Washington, DC, at the American Academy of Neurology.
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