Young Amateur Athletes at Risk of CTE, BU Study Finds

More than 40 percent of football, soccer, ice hockey, and other contact sport participants under age 30 had signs of the degenerative brain disease, including the first American woman soccer player to be diagnosed

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Tau pathology in the medial temporal lobe of athletes with chronic traumatic encephalopathy: a chronic effects of neurotrauma consortium study, Acta Neuropathologica Communications

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BU study: Young amateur athletes are getting CTE

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Largest study of brains of athletes younger than 30 finds early signs of CTE even in amateur players

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