Lee Goldstein’s Research on CTE Garners Media Attention

 


Groundbreaking work by BU researchers, including Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD, of our department and Ann McKee, MD, BU professor of Pathology and Neurology, on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has been featured in the Washington Post and 60 Minutes.  CTE is a neurogenerative disease in the brain that can arise from head injuries like military blasts and sports related hits.

The 60 Minutes story, which you can watch in full here, focuses on the heartbreaking experiences of veterans exposed to military blasts who decline slowly long after they have returned home, and the research that is being done to help understand what is happening to them.  CTE has also affected several high profile professional athletes, including former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez. The Washington Post piece emphasizes Dr Goldstein’s team’s finding that CTE can happen independently of a concussion, many of those most affected by CTE were never diagnosed with a concussion.  This has changed the way that the NFL is addressing head injuries sustained by its players.

This team’s work was also featured in an article published  in the journal Brain.
Citation: Tagge, C. A., Fisher, A. M., Minaeva, O. V., Gaudreau-Balderrama, A., Moncaster, J. A., Zhang, X., . . . Goldstein, L. E. (2018). Concussion, microvascular injury, and early tauopathy in young athletes after impact head injury and an impact concussion mouse model. Brain.  
You can read this article, and watch a video of Dr Goldstein describing CTE here.