Season 4: Episode 9: CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy)

What happens to the brain after repeated head impacts? 🧠

In this episode of Tumor Minutes, we’re diving into CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), a neurodegenerative disease associated with repeated head impacts.

We’ll explore:
🧠 How the brain responds to head impacts
🏈 The connection between CTE and contact sports
🔬 What tau proteins have to do with CTE
💭 The symptoms researchers have associated with CTE
❓ Why diagnosing CTE is still so challenging
🧪 What scientists are still trying to figure out

CTE is a complex and evolving area of neuroscience, and there’s still a lot we don’t know. So let’s separate the science from the myths.