Blood biomarker evidence of damage to neurons and activation of glial cells, indicating brain inflammation, are found in long COVID patients and correlate with symptoms of anxiety.
MRI patterns of shrinkage in the frontal-temporal region may signal the presence of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in living patients, new research suggests.
known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy or cte. it s what alix believes has happened to him, and notjust in the games themselves. the amount of contact i did in training for my clubs, the amount of games that i played it s most probably more than 100,000. when you turn professional driving line outs, tackling, bone on bone, 15 against 15 there was always contact every day. we only see in people who ve had a history of brain injury, this chronic traumatic encephalopathy. a direct link causation is a really difficult thing to prove, but i think there s more than enough evidence that, on a balance of probabilities, being exposed to repetitive head impacts and head injuries in your younger part of life is not good for late outcomes. until somebody comes forward with evidence that banging your head over and over and overand overagain is safe, we should just review