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\nGroundbreaking work by BU researchers, including\u00a0<\/span>Lee Goldstein, MD<\/strong>, PhD,\u00a0of our department\u00a0and Ann McKee, MD, BU professor of Pathology and Neurology, on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has been featured in the Washington Post and 60 Minutes.\u00a0 CTE is a neurogenerative disease in the brain that can arise from head injuries like\u00a0military blasts and sports related hits.<\/p>\n
The 60 Minutes story, which you can watch in full\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>, focuses on the heartbreaking experiences of veterans exposed to military blasts who\u00a0decline\u00a0slowly long after they have returned home, and the research that is being done to help understand what is happening to them.\u00a0 CTE has also affected several high profile professional athletes, including former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez.\u00a0The\u00a0<\/span>Washington Post piece<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>emphasizes Dr Goldstein’s team’s\u00a0finding that CTE can happen independently of a concussion, many of those most affected by CTE were never diagnosed with a concussion.\u00a0 This has changed the way that the NFL is addressing head injuries sustained by its players.<\/p>\n This team’s work was also featured in an article published\u00a0 in the journal Brain. Groundbreaking work by BU researchers, including\u00a0Lee Goldstein, MD, PhD,\u00a0of our department\u00a0and Ann McKee, MD, BU professor of Pathology and Neurology, on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) has been featured in the Washington Post and 60 Minutes.\u00a0 CTE is a neurogenerative disease in the brain that can arise from head injuries like\u00a0military blasts and sports related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/7ca917ec195446e3aa8f6bcdc\/images\/60f91415-0615-4915-ba4f-b3cf952e16e4.jpg\")
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\nCitation: 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.\u00a0Brain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>
\nYou can read this article, and watch a video of Dr Goldstein describing CTE\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"