{"id":80,"date":"2025-10-31T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2025\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:53:39","slug":"cte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ar.bu.edu\/2025\/scientific-progress\/cte\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosing CTE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above: A new project at BU’s CTE Center<\/strong> looks for biological markers that indicate brain disease resulting from head trauma.<\/em><\/p>\n

$15M NIH grant bolsters University efforts to diagnose a brain disease afflicting athletes and veterans<\/strong><\/p>\n

One tragic aspect of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated head trauma, is that diagnosis always comes too late\u2014after death.<\/p>\n

A new study led by Boston University\u2019s CTE Center<\/a> aims to change that.<\/p>\n

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project\u2013II<\/a> will explore whether bloodwork and advanced brain imaging can identify biological markers of CTE. A diagnosis in living patients would open the door to potential treatments and offer hope to devastated families. The project builds on BU\u2019s first DIAGNOSE CTE study, launched in 2015, which helped define the disease\u2019s symptoms, including memory loss, difficulty solving problems, aggression, and poor impulse control.<\/p>\n