Scientists claim to diagnose football-related brain injury in living patients for first time

For the first time, scientists have confirmed a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) — a neurological disease linked to head injuries from sports like football — in a living person. Until now, we’ve only been able to diagnose CTE in dead patients. Finding the disease while the patient is still alive could help scientists find a way to treat it.
CTE develops from repeated hits to the head and has been linked to severe memory loss, depression, and dementia. It&rsqu