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CTE - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy[0] for anyone else who was confused. The author uses it countless times without explaining what it is. More details - Cu
by isatty 9y ago
CTE - Chronic traumatic encephalopathy[0] for anyone else who was confused. The author uses it countless times without explaining what it is.
More details - Currently, CTE can only be definitively diagnosed by direct tissue examination after death, including full and immunohistochemical brain analyses.[15]
The lack of in vivo techniques to show distinct biomarkers for CTE is the reason CTE cannot currently be diagnosed while a person is alive...[1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopathy#Diagnosis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...
- anigbrowl 9y agoThe very first line of the story says what it is: Researchers have identified the degenerative brain disease known as CTE... It's a newspaper rather than a scientific journal so I think they can be forgiven for not expanding the acronym, just as newspapers commonly report heart attacks rather than myocardial infarctions.
- acchow 9y agoFor the vast majority of their readers "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy" is just as uninformative as "CTE".
- anigbrowl 9y agoWell yes, that's the point of saying 'degenerative brain disease' instead.
- jwilk 9y agoThey do expand the acronym in the second paragraph: ... to identify chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the living.