by Boston University School of Medicine Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA new Boston University Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center study has found that, among a sample of 152 young athletes exposed to repetitive head impacts (RHI) who were under age 30 at the time of death, 41.4% (63) had neuropathological evidence of CTE, a degenerative brain...
by Jennifer Chen, Yale University Fig. 1: Imaging and histopathology of the low-grade glioma. Credit: npj Precision Oncology (2021). DOI: 10.1038/s41698-021-00143-w While deadly, gliosarcomas are a rare central nervous system tumor often overshadowed in research by more common tumors. These sarcomas can occur either in the brain or the spine (the latter is much less common). A team...
