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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy caused by more than just head trauma, study finds

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—most often found in athletes playing contact sports—is known to share similarities with Alzheimer's disease (AD), namely the buildup of a protein called tau in ...
Business Wire

Moleculera Labs’ Study Demonstrates Clinical Utility and Accuracy of the Cunningham Panel in Patients With Symptoms of Autoimmune Encephalopathy

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Moleculera Labs, Inc., a precision medicine, autoimmune neurobiology company, today announced the online publication of a study in the Journal of Neuroimmunology ...
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Gene mutation leads to epileptic encephalopathy symptoms, neuron death in mice

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Mice with a genetic mutation that’s been observed in patients with epileptic encephalopathy, a severe form of congenital epilepsy, exhibit not only the seizure, developmental and ...
MedPage Today

Parkinsonism in Athletes Linked With Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Pathology

Parkinsonism was linked with CTE in athletes, cross-sectional data suggested. Nearly 25% of deceased contact sports participants with CTE had parkinsonism symptoms before they died. More than 75% of ...
BMJ

9.16 Symptoms of traumatic encephalopathy syndrome in community-dwelling older adults

1 Vanderbilt Sports Concussion Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA 2 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA 3 Harvard ...
Medscape

Neurologic Symptoms and COVID-19:

Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first US case of novel ...