{"id":106340,"date":"2026-01-29T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=106340"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:21:20","slug":"from-the-brink-cte-can-cause-dementia-according-to-new-boston-university-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2026\/01\/29\/from-the-brink-cte-can-cause-dementia-according-to-new-boston-university-study\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Brink: CTE Can Cause Dementia, According to New Boston University Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"head\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>CTE Can Cause Dementia, According to New Boston University Study<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4 class=\"head\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Brink; January 27, 2026<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/cte-can-cause-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full story<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>A recent article from\u00a0<em>The Brink\u00a0<\/em>highlighted a new study from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boston University CTE Center<\/a> that found people with advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy have four times higher odds of getting dementia than those without the progressive brain disease.<\/p>\n<p>The study was <a href=\"https:\/\/alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/alz.71032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published in<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Alzheimer\u2019s &amp; Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer\u2019s Association<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0<\/em>and reports that CTE should be classified as a new cause of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story from\u00a0<em>The Brink\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2026\/cte-can-cause-dementia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CTE Can Cause Dementia, According to New Boston University Study The Brink; January 27, 2026 Read full story A recent article from\u00a0The Brink\u00a0highlighted a new study from the Boston University CTE Center that found people with advanced chronic traumatic encephalopathy have four times higher odds of getting dementia than those without the progressive brain disease. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":67561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[795,7154,54],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106345,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106340\/revisions\/106345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}