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Esagoff AI, Gifford MK, Narapareddy BR, Sair HI, Luna LP, Raj D, Shan G, Peters M, Bernick C. Prior football or rugby exposure and white matter signal abnormalities in professional male mixed martial arts fighters. PHYSICIAN SPORTSMED 2024:1-5. [PMID: 39022864 DOI: 10.1080/00913847.2024.2382085] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2024] [Accepted: 07/16/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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BACKGROUND White matter signal abnormalities have been associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and repetitive head impacts (RHI) in contact sports (e.g. American football, rugby). However, previous studies of mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters from the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study have not found greater white matter signal abnormalities in fighters versus controls. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore the varying white matter effects of football/rugby and MMA by analyzing how football/rugby history in mixed martial arts fighters may relate to white matter signal abnormalities, helping to further our understanding of sport-specific brain health risks. METHODS Baseline visits for 90 active, professional, male mixed martial arts fighters and 27 unexposed male controls were cross-sectionally analyzed. Wilcoxon and Kruskal-Wallis tests compared demographics and white matter signal abnormalities, and multivariable regression models examined the associations between football/rugby history and white matter signal abnormality burden in fighters, adjusting for age, education, race, fights, MRI scanner, and supratentorial volume. RESULTS 37/90 fighters had football/rugby history (mean: 4 years; range: 1-12 years). White matter signal abnormalities were significantly greater in fighters with football/rugby history compared to fighters without football/rugby history (Wilcoxon, p = 0.0190). Football/rugby history was significantly associated with white matter signal abnormality burden >75th percentile (OR: 12, CI: 3.3-61, p < 0.001) and >50th percentile (OR: 3.2, CI: 1.2-9.4, p = 0.024) in fighters. Years of football/rugby were also significantly associated with white matter signal abnormalities. CONCLUSION Our findings expand on previous literature by demonstrating a significant relationship between white matter signal abnormalities (WMSAs) and football/rugby history but not MMA. Furthermore, our study suggests an added risk for WMSAs in MMA fighters with a history of football/rugby. Future research should further evaluate WMSAs in contact sports, helping to inform athletes, regulatory bodies, and healthcare providers of the potential brain health risks of contact sports.
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- Aaron I Esagoff
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science - Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Radiology and Radiological Science - Neuroradiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- College of Public Health and Health Professions and College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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Brett BL, Klein AP, Vazirnia P, Omidfar S, Guskiewicz KK, McCrea M, Meier T. White Matter Hyperintensities and Microstructural Alterations in Contact Sport Athletes from Adolescence to Early Midlife. J Neurotrauma 2024. [PMID: 38661548 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2023.0609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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Studies have demonstrated associations between cumulative concussion and repetitive head impact exposure (RHI) via contact sports with white matter (WM) alterations later in life. The course of WM changes associated with exposure earlier in the lifespan are unclear. This study investigated alterations in white matter (WM hyperintensity [WMH] volume and microstructural changes) associated with concussion and RHI exposure from adolescence to early midlife, as well as the interaction between exposure and age-cohort (i.e., adolescent/young adult compared to early midlife athlete cohorts) on WM outcomes. Participating football players included an adolescent/young adulthood cohort (n=82; Mage=18.41.7) and an early midlife cohort (37 former collegiate players approximately 15-years removed from sport; Mage=37.71.4). Years of football participation and number of prior concussions were exposures of interest. White matter outcomes included log-transformed manually segmented total WMH volume and neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging metrics of microstructure/organization (isotropic volume fraction[Viso], intra-cellular volume fraction[Vic], and orientation dispersion[OD]). Regression models were fit to test effects of concussion history, years of football participation, and age-cohort by years of football participation with WM outcomes. Spearman's correlations assessed associations between significant WM metrics and measures of cognitive and psychological function. A significant age-cohort by years of participation effect was observed for whole brain white matter OD, B=-0.002, SE=0.001, p=0.001. The interaction was driven by a negative association between years of participation and OD within the younger cohort, B=-0.001, SE=0.0004, p=0.008, whereas a positive association between participation and OD in the early midlife cohort, B=0.001, SE=0.0003, p=0.039, was observed. Follow-up ROI analyses showed significant interaction effects for OD in the body of the corpus callosum, genu of the corpus callosum, cingulum, inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus, superior longitudinal fasciculus, posterior thalamic radiation (ps<0.05). Greater concussion history was significantly associated with greater Viso in the early midlife cohort, B=0.001, SE= 0.0002, p=0.010. Years of participation and concussion history were not associated with WMH volume, ps>0.05. Performance on a measure of executive function was significantly associated with years of participation, =.34, p=.04, and a trend was observed for OD, =.28, p=.09 in the early midlife cohort only. The global characterization of white matter changes associated with years of football participation were broadly similar and stable from adolescence through early midlife (i.e., microstructural alterations, but not macroscopic lesions). An inverse association between years of participation and orientation dispersion across age-cohorts may represent a process of initial recovery/reorganization proximal to sport, followed by later reduction of white matter coherence.
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- Benjamin L Brett
- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Neurosurgery and Neurology, 8701 W Watertown Plank Rd, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Radiology, 9200 West Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, 5506, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States;
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- University of North Carolina, Exercise and Sport Science, CB#8700, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, 27599-8700;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Neurosurgery, Hub for Collaborative Medicine, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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- Medical College of Wisconsin, Neurosurgery, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, 53226;
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Arciniega H, Baucom ZH, Tuz-Zahra F, Tripodis Y, John O, Carrington H, Kim N, Knyazhanskaya EE, Jung LB, Breedlove K, Wiegand TLT, Daneshvar DH, Rushmore RJ, Billah T, Pasternak O, Coleman MJ, Adler CH, Bernick C, Balcer LJ, Alosco ML, Koerte IK, Lin AP, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Stern RA, Shenton ME, Bouix S. Brain morphometry in former American football players: Findings from the DIAGNOSE CTE research project. Brain 2024:awae098. [PMID: 38533783 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awae098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 02/16/2024] [Accepted: 03/07/2024] [Indexed: 03/28/2024] Open
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Exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHIs) in contact sports is associated with neurodegenerative disorders including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) which currently can be diagnosed only at postmortem. American football players are at higher risk of developing CTE given their exposure to RHIs. One promising approach for diagnosing CTE in vivo is to explore known neuropathological abnormalities at postmortem in living individuals using structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI brain morphometry was evaluated in 170 male former American football players ages 45-74 years (n = 114 professional; n = 56 college) and 54 same-age unexposed asymptomatic male controls (n = 58 age range 45-74). Cortical thickness and volume of regions of interest were selected based on established CTE pathology findings and were assessed using FreeSurfer. Group differences and interactions with age and exposure factors were evaluated using a generalized least squares model. A separate logistic regression and independent multinomial model were performed to predict each Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome (TES) diagnosis core clinical features and provisional level of certainty for CTE pathology using brain regions of interest. Former college and professional American football players (combined) showed significant cortical thickness and/or volume reductions compared to unexposed asymptomatic controls in the hippocampus amygdala entorhinal cortex parahippocampal gyrus insula temporal pole and superior frontal gyrus. Post-hoc analyses identified group-level differences between former professional players and unexposed asymptomatic controls in the hippocampus amygdala entorhinal cortex parahippocampal gyrus insula and superior frontal gyrus. Former college players showed significant volume reductions in the hippocampus amygdala and superior frontal gyrus compared to the unexposed asymptomatic controls. We did not observe age-by-group interactions for brain morphometric measures. Interactions between morphometry and exposure measures were limited to a single significant positive association between the age of first exposure to organized tackle football and right insular volume. We found no significant relationship between brain morphometric measures and the TES diagnosis core clinical features and provisional level of certainty for CTE pathology outcomes. These findings suggest that MRI morphometrics detects abnormalities in individuals with a history of RHI exposure that resemble the anatomic distribution of pathological findings from postmortem CTE studies. The lack of findings associating MRI measures with exposure metrics (except for one significant relationship) or TES diagnosis and core clinical features suggests that brain morphometry must be complemented by other types of measures to characterize individuals with RHIs.
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- Hector Arciniega
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- NYU Concussion Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10016, USA
- NYU Concussion Center, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY 10016, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80336 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80336 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA 02129, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV 89106, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
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- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10017, USA
- Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY 10017, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY,10017, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80336 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
- Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 82152 Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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- Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Pam Quirk Brain Health and Biomarker Laboratory, Department of Brain Health School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute and Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ 85006, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 85008, USA
- Neurogenomics Division, Translational Genomics Research Institute and Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ 85004, USA
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- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02145, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
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- Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology, École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, QC, H3C 1K3, Canada
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McNamee M, Anderson LC, Borry P, Camporesi S, Derman W, Holm S, Knox TR, Leuridan B, Loland S, Lopez Frias FJ, Lorusso L, Malcolm D, McArdle D, Partridge B, Schramme T, Weed M. Sport-related concussion research agenda beyond medical science: culture, ethics, science, policy. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 2024:jme-2022-108812. [PMID: 36868564 DOI: 10.1136/jme-2022-108812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The Concussion in Sport Group guidelines have successfully brought the attention of brain injuries to the global medical and sport research communities, and has significantly impacted brain injury-related practices and rules of international sport. Despite being the global repository of state-of-the-art science, diagnostic tools and guides to clinical practice, the ensuing consensus statements remain the object of ethical and sociocultural criticism. The purpose of this paper is to bring to bear a broad range of multidisciplinary challenges to the processes and products of sport-related concussion movement. We identify lacunae in scientific research and clinical guidance in relation to age, disability, gender and race. We also identify, through multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary analysis, a range of ethical problems resulting from conflicts of interest, processes of attributing expertise in sport-related concussion, unjustifiably narrow methodological control and insufficient athlete engagement in research and policy development. We argue that the sport and exercise medicine community need to augment the existing research and practice foci to understand these problems more holistically and, in turn, provide guidance and recommendations that help sport clinicians better care for brain-injured athletes.
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- Mike McNamee
- Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
- School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University, Swansea, UK
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- Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, London, UK
- Department of Political Sciences, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria
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- Institute of Sport & Exercise Medicine, Dept of Exercise, Sport & Lifestyle Medicine, Facuty of Medicine & Health Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
- IOC Research Center, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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- Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
- Centre for Medical Ethics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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- Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
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- Department of Sport and Social Sciences, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo, Norway
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- Departament de Psicologia Social, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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- School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK
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- Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Liverpool, UK
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- Centre for Sport, Physical Education & Activity Research (spear), Canterbury Christ Church University, Canterbury, UK
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Ly MT, Tuz-Zahra F, Tripodis Y, Adler CH, Balcer LJ, Bernick C, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Peskind ER, Au R, Banks SJ, Barr WB, Wethe JV, Bondi MW, Delano-Wood LM, Cantu RC, Coleman MJ, Dodick DW, McClean MD, Mez JB, Palmisano J, Martin B, Hartlage K, Lin AP, Koerte IK, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Shenton ME, Stern RA, Bouix S, Alosco ML. Association of Vascular Risk Factors and CSF and Imaging Biomarkers With White Matter Hyperintensities in Former American Football Players. Neurology 2024; 102:e208030. [PMID: 38165330 PMCID: PMC10870736 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000208030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Recent data link exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHIs) from American football with increased white matter hyperintensity (WMH) burden. WMH might have unique characteristics in the context of RHI beyond vascular risk and normal aging processes. We evaluated biological correlates of WMH in former American football players, including markers of amyloid, tau, inflammation, axonal injury, neurodegeneration, and vascular health. METHODS Participants underwent clinical interviews, MRI, and lumbar puncture as part of the Diagnostics, Imaging, and Genetics Network for the Objective Study and Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Research Project. Structural equation modeling tested direct and indirect effects between log-transformed total fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) lesion volumes (TLV) and the revised Framingham stroke risk profile (rFSRP), MRI-derived global metrics of cortical thickness and fractional anisotropy (FA), and CSF levels of amyloid β1-42, p-tau181, soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (sTREM2), and neurofilament light. Covariates included age, race, education, body mass index, APOE ε4 carrier status, and evaluation site. Models were performed separately for former football players and a control group of asymptomatic men unexposed to RHI. RESULTS In 180 former football players (mean age = 57.2, 36% Black), higher log(TLV) had direct associations with the following: higher rFSRP score (B = 0.26, 95% CI 0.07-0.40), higher p-tau181 (B = 0.17, 95% CI 0.01-0.43), lower FA (B = -0.28, 95% CI -0.42 to -0.13), and reduced cortical thickness (B = -0.25, 95% CI -0.45 to -0.08). In 60 asymptomatic unexposed men (mean age = 59.3, 40% Black), there were no direct effects on log(TLV) (rFSRP: B = -0.03, 95% CI -0.48 to 0.57; p-tau181: B = -0.30, 95% CI -1.14 to 0.37; FA: B = -0.07, 95% CI -0.48 to 0.42; or cortical thickness: B = -0.28, 95% CI -0.64 to 0.10). The former football players showed stronger associations between log(TLV) and rFSRP (1,069% difference in estimates), p-tau181 (158%), and FA (287%) than the unexposed men. DISCUSSION Risk factors and biological correlates of WMH differed between former American football players and asymptomatic unexposed men. In addition to vascular health, p-tau181 and diffusion tensor imaging indices of white matter integrity showed stronger associations with WMH in the former football players. FLAIR WMH may have specific risk factors and pathologic underpinnings in RHI-exposed individuals.
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- Monica T Ly
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Yorghos Tripodis
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Charles H Adler
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Laura J Balcer
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Charles Bernick
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Henrik Zetterberg
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Kaj Blennow
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Elaine R Peskind
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Rhoda Au
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Sarah J Banks
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - William B Barr
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Jennifer V Wethe
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Mark W Bondi
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Lisa M Delano-Wood
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Robert C Cantu
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Michael J Coleman
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - David W Dodick
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Michael D McClean
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Jesse B Mez
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Joseph Palmisano
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Brett Martin
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Kaitlin Hartlage
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Alexander P Lin
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Inga K Koerte
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Jeffrey L Cummings
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
| | - Eric M Reiman
- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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- From the VA San Diego Healthcare System (M.T.L., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), CA; Department of Psychiatry (M.T.L., S.J.B., M.W.B., L.M.D.-W.), University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla; Departments of Biostatistics (F.T.-Z., Y.T.), Epidemiology (R.A.), Environmental Health (M.D.M.), Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (J.P., B.M., K.H.), Boston University School of Public Health, MA; Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (Y.T., J.B.M., M.L.A., R.A., R.C.C., R.A.S.), Boston University CTE Center; Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine; Departments of Neurology (C.H.A., D.W.D.) and Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Population Health and Ophthalmology, (L.J.B.), and Neurology (W.B.B.), NYU Grossman School of Medicine; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (C.B.), Las Vegas, NV; Department of Neurology (C.B.), University of Washington, Seattle; Department of Neurodegenerative Disease (H.Z.), and UK Dementia Research Institute (H.Z.), University College London Institute of Neurology, UK; Hong Kong Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (H.Z.), China; Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (H.Z.), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory (H.Z., K.B.), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry (K.B.), Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (E.R.P.), Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Framingham Heart Study (R.A., J.B.M.); Slone Epidemiology Center (R.A.), Boston University, MA; Department of Neurosciences (S.J.B.), University of California San Diego; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.J.C., A.P.L., I.K.K., M.E.S., S.B.), Departments of Psychiatry Radiology (M.E.S.), and Center for Clinical Spectroscopy (A.P.L.), Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; cBRAIN (I.K.K.), Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix; Arizona State University (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Translational Genomics Research Institute (E.M.R.), Phoenix; Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium (E.M.R.), Phoenix; and Department of Software Engineering and Information Technology (S.B.), École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec, Montréal, Canada
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McKee AC, Mez J, Abdolmohammadi B, Butler M, Huber BR, Uretsky M, Babcock K, Cherry JD, Alvarez VE, Martin B, Tripodis Y, Palmisano JN, Cormier KA, Kubilus CA, Nicks R, Kirsch D, Mahar I, McHale L, Nowinski C, Cantu RC, Stern RA, Daneshvar D, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Kowall NW, Dwyer B, Stein TD, Alosco ML. Neuropathologic and Clinical Findings in Young Contact Sport Athletes Exposed to Repetitive Head Impacts. JAMA Neurol 2023; 80:1037-1050. [PMID: 37639244 PMCID: PMC10463175 DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2023.2907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2023] [Accepted: 07/06/2023] [Indexed: 08/29/2023]
Abstract
Importance Young contact sport athletes may be at risk for long-term neuropathologic disorders, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Objective To characterize the neuropathologic and clinical symptoms of young brain donors who were contact sport athletes. Design, Setting, and Participants This case series analyzes findings from 152 of 156 brain donors younger than 30 years identified through the Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) Brain Bank who donated their brains from February 1, 2008, to September 31, 2022. Neuropathologic evaluations, retrospective telephone clinical assessments, and online questionnaires with informants were performed blinded. Data analysis was conducted between August 2021 and June 2023. Exposures Repetitive head impacts from contact sports. Main Outcomes and Measures Gross and microscopic neuropathologic assessment, including diagnosis of CTE, based on defined diagnostic criteria; and informant-reported athletic history and informant-completed scales that assess cognitive symptoms, mood disturbances, and neurobehavioral dysregulation. Results Among the 152 deceased contact sports participants (mean [SD] age, 22.97 [4.31] years; 141 [92.8%] male) included in the study, CTE was diagnosed in 63 (41.4%; median [IQR] age, 26 [24-27] years). Of the 63 brain donors diagnosed with CTE, 60 (95.2%) were diagnosed with mild CTE (stages I or II). Brain donors who had CTE were more likely to be older (mean difference, 3.92 years; 95% CI, 2.74-5.10 years) Of the 63 athletes with CTE, 45 (71.4%) were men who played amateur sports, including American football, ice hockey, soccer, rugby, and wrestling; 1 woman with CTE played collegiate soccer. For those who played football, duration of playing career was significantly longer in those with vs without CTE (mean difference, 2.81 years; 95% CI, 1.15-4.48 years). Athletes with CTE had more ventricular dilatation, cavum septum pellucidum, thalamic notching, and perivascular pigment-laden macrophages in the frontal white matter than those without CTE. Cognitive and neurobehavioral symptoms were frequent among all brain donors. Suicide was the most common cause of death, followed by unintentional overdose; there were no differences in cause of death or clinical symptoms based on CTE status. Conclusions and Relevance This case series found that young brain donors exposed to repetitive head impacts were highly symptomatic regardless of CTE status, and the causes of symptoms in this sample are likely multifactorial. Future studies that include young brain donors unexposed to repetitive head impacts are needed to clarify the association among exposure, white matter and microvascular pathologic findings, CTE, and clinical symptoms.
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- Ann C. McKee
- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Psychiatry, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biomedical, Electrical, and Computer Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, Massachusetts
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- Veterans Affairs (VA) Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, Massachusetts
- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veteran Affairs, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts
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Rosen G, Kirsch D, Horowitz S, Cherry JD, Nicks R, Kelley H, Uretsky M, Dell'Aquila K, Mathias R, Cormier KA, Kubilus CA, Mez J, Tripodis Y, Stein TD, Alvarez VE, Alosco ML, McKee AC, Huber BR. Three dimensional evaluation of cerebrovascular density and branching in chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2023; 11:123. [PMID: 37491342 PMCID: PMC10369801 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-023-01612-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2023] [Accepted: 06/28/2023] [Indexed: 07/27/2023] Open
Abstract
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI) and characterized by perivascular accumulations of hyperphosphorylated tau protein (p-tau) at the depths of the cortical sulci. Studies of living athletes exposed to RHI, including concussive and nonconcussive impacts, have shown increased blood-brain barrier permeability, reduced cerebral blood flow, and alterations in vasoreactivity. Blood-brain barrier abnormalities have also been reported in individuals neuropathologically diagnosed with CTE. To further investigate the three-dimensional microvascular changes in individuals diagnosed with CTE and controls, we used SHIELD tissue processing and passive delipidation to optically clear and label blocks of postmortem human dorsolateral frontal cortex. We used fluorescent confocal microscopy to quantitate vascular branch density and fraction volume. We compared the findings in 41 male brain donors, age at death 31-89 years, mean age 64 years, including 12 donors with low CTE (McKee stage I-II), 13 with high CTE (McKee stage III-IV) to 16 age- and sex-matched non-CTE controls (7 with RHI exposure and 9 with no RHI exposure). The density of vessel branches in the gray matter sulcus was significantly greater in CTE cases than in controls. The ratios of sulcus versus gyrus vessel branch density and fraction volume were also greater in CTE than in controls and significantly above one for the CTE group. Hyperphosphorylated tau pathology density correlated with gray matter sulcus fraction volume. These findings point towards increased vascular coverage and branching in the dorsolateral frontal cortex (DLF) sulci in CTE, that correlates with p-tau pathology.
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- Grace Rosen
- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- National Center for PTSD, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- National Center for PTSD, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Bedford, MA, USA
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- VA Boston Healthcare System, US Department of Veterans Affairs, 150 S Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02130, USA.
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, USA.
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston, USA.
- National Center for PTSD, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Boston, MA, USA.
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Lee JK, Bernick C, Stephen S, Ritter A, Bullen J, Mangat A, Joyce J, Jones SE. 7T MRI Versus 3T MRI of the Brain in Professional Fighters and Patients With Head Trauma. Neurotrauma Rep 2023; 4:342-349. [PMID: 37284698 PMCID: PMC10240322 DOI: 10.1089/neur.2023.0001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Many studies have investigated the imaging sequelae of repetitive head trauma with mixed results, particularly with regard to the detection of intracranial white matter changes (WMCs) and cerebral microhemorrhages (CMHs) on ≤3 Tesla (T) field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). 7T MRI, which has recently been approved for clinical use, is more sensitive at detecting lesions associated with multiple neurological diagnoses. In this study, we sought to determine whether 7T MRI would detect more WMCs and CMHs than 3T MRI in 19 professional fighters, 16 patients with single TBI, versus 82 normal healthy controls (NHCs). Fighters and patients with TBI underwent both 3T and 7T MRI; NHCs underwent either 3T (n = 61) or 7T (n = 21) MRI. Readers agreed on the presence/absence of WMCs in 88% (84 of 95) of 3T MRI studies (Cohen's kappa, 0.76) and in 93% (51 of 55) of 7T MRI studies (Cohen's kappa, 0.79). Readers agreed on the presence/absence of CMHs in 96% (91 of 95) of 3T MRI studies (Cohen's kappa, 0.76) and in 96% (54 of 56) of 7T MRI studies (Cohen's kappa, 0.88). The number of WMCs detected was greater in fighters and patients with TBI than NHCs at both 3T and 7T. Moreover, the number of WMCs was greater at 7T than at 3T for fighters, patients with TBI, and NHCs. There was no difference in the number of CMHs detected with 7T MRI versus 3T MRI or in the number of CMHs observed in fighters/patients with TBI versus NHCs. These initial findings suggest that fighters and patients with TBI may have more WMCs than NHCs and that the improved voxel size and signal-to-noise ratio at 7T may help to detect these changes. As 7T MRI becomes more prevalent clinically, larger patient populations should be studied to determine the cause of these WMCs.
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- Neurological Institute, Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- University of Rochester Medical School, Rochester, New York, USA
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- Hoag's Pickup Family Neurosciences Institute, Hoag Hospital, Newport Beach, California, USA
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- Quantitative Health Sciences, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Medical Imaging, St. Joseph's Health Care London, London, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Baucom ZH, Adler CH, Balcer LJ, Bernick C, Mariani ML, Au R, Banks SJ, Barr WB, Wethe JV, Cantu RC, Coleman MJ, Dodick DW, McClean MD, McKee AC, Mez J, Palmisano JN, Martin B, Hartlage K, Lin AP, Koerte IK, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Stern RA, Shenton ME, Bouix S. White matter hyperintensities in former American football players. Alzheimers Dement 2023; 19:1260-1273. [PMID: 35996231 PMCID: PMC10351916 DOI: 10.1002/alz.12779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Revised: 06/24/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
Abstract
INTRODUCTION The presentation, risk factors, and etiologies of white matter hyperintensities (WMH) in people exposed to repetitive head impacts are unknown. We examined the burden and distribution of WMH, and their association with years of play, age of first exposure, and clinical function in former American football players. METHODS A total of 149 former football players and 53 asymptomatic unexposed participants (all men, 45-74 years) completed fluid-attenuated inversion recovery magnetic resonance imaging, neuropsychological testing, and self-report neuropsychiatric measures. Lesion Segmentation Toolbox estimated WMH. Analyses were performed in the total sample and stratified by age 60. RESULTS In older but not younger participants, former football players had greater total, frontal, temporal, and parietal log-WMH compared to asymptomatic unexposed men. In older but not younger former football players, greater log-WMH was associated with younger age of first exposure to football and worse executive function. DISCUSSION In older former football players, WMH may have unique presentations, risk factors, and etiologies. HIGHLIGHTS Older but not younger former football players had greater total, frontal, temporal, and parietal lobe white matter hyperintensities (WMH) compared to same-age asymptomatic unexposed men. Younger age of first exposure to football was associated with greater WMH in older but not younger former American football players. In former football players, greater WMH was associated with worse executive function and verbal memory.
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- Michael L. Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Departments of Neurology, Population Health and Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV
- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
- Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston University, Boston, MA
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA
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- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
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- Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Translational Genomics Research Institute, and Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium, Phoenix, AZ
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
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Traumatic MicroRNAs: Deconvolving the Signal After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury. Cell Mol Neurobiol 2023; 43:1061-1075. [PMID: 35852739 DOI: 10.1007/s10571-022-01254-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Abstract
History of traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents a significant risk factor for development of dementia and neurodegenerative disorders in later life. While histopathological sequelae and neurological diagnostics of TBI are well defined, the molecular events linking the post-TBI signaling and neurodegenerative cascades remain unknown. It is not only due to the brain's inaccessibility to direct molecular analysis but also due to the lack of well-defined and highly informative peripheral biomarkers. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) in blood are promising candidates to address this gap. Using integrative bioinformatics pipeline including miRNA:target identification, pathway enrichment, and protein-protein interactions analysis we identified set of genes, interacting proteins, and pathways that are connected to previously reported peripheral miRNAs, deregulated following severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) in humans. This meta-analysis revealed a spectrum of genes closely related to critical biological processes, such as neuroregeneration including axon guidance and neurite outgrowth, neurotransmission, inflammation, proliferation, apoptosis, cell adhesion, and response to DNA damage. More importantly, we have identified molecular pathways associated with neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, based on purely peripheral markers. The pathway signature after acute sTBI is similar to the one observed in chronic neurodegenerative conditions, which implicates a link between the post-sTBI signaling and neurodegeneration. Identified key hub interacting proteins represent a group of novel candidates for potential therapeutic targets or biomarkers.
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Butterfield J, Post A, Karton C, Robidoux MA, Gilchrist M, Hoshizaki TB. A video analysis examination of the frequency and type of head impacts for player positions in youth ice hockey and FE estimation of their impact severity. Sports Biomech 2023:1-17. [PMID: 36911883 DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2023.2186941] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2023]
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This research employed head impact frequency and frequency of estimated strain to analyse the influence of player position on brain trauma in U15 and U18 youth ice hockey. The methods involved a video analysis of 30 U15 and 30 U18 games where frequency, type of head impact event, and player position during impact was recorded. These impacts were then simulated in the laboratory using physical reconstructions and finite element modelling to determine the brain strains for each impact category. U15 forwards experienced significantly higher head impact frequencies (139) when compared to defenceman (50), with goalies showing the lowest frequency (6) (p < 0.05). U18 forwards experienced significantly higher head impact frequencies (220) when compared to defenceman (92), with goalies having the least frequent head impacts (4) (p < 0.05). The U15 forwards had a significantly higher frequency of head impacts at the very low and med strains and the U18s had higher frequency of head impacts for the very low and low level strains (p < 0.05). Game rule changes and equipment innovation may be considered to mitigate the increased risk faced by forwards compared to other positions in U15 and U18 youth ice hockey.
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.,School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.,School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Alosco ML, Ly M, Mosaheb S, Saltiel N, Uretsky M, Tripodis Y, Martin B, Palmisano J, Delano-Wood L, Bondi MW, Meng G, Xia W, Daley S, Goldstein LE, Katz DI, Dwyer B, Daneshvar DH, Nowinski C, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Stern RA, Alvarez VE, Mez J, Huber BR, McKee AC, Stein TD. Decreased myelin proteins in brain donors exposed to football-related repetitive head impacts. Brain Commun 2023; 5:fcad019. [PMID: 36895961 PMCID: PMC9990992 DOI: 10.1093/braincomms/fcad019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2022] [Revised: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 01/30/2023] [Indexed: 03/09/2023] Open
Abstract
American football players and other individuals exposed to repetitive head impacts can exhibit a constellation of later-life cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. While tau-based diseases such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy can underpin certain symptoms, contributions from non-tau pathologies from repetitive head impacts are increasingly recognized. We examined cross-sectional associations between myelin integrity using immunoassays for myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 with risk factors and clinical outcomes in brain donors exposed to repetitive head impacts from American football. Immunoassays for myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 were conducted on dorsolateral frontal white matter tissue samples of 205 male brain donors. Proxies of exposure to repetitive head impacts included years of exposure and age of first exposure to American football play. Informants completed the Functional Activities Questionnaire, Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function-Adult Version (Behavioral Regulation Index), and Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11. Associations between myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 with exposure proxies and clinical scales were tested. Of the 205 male brain donors who played amateur and professional football, the mean age was 67.17 (SD = 16.78), and 75.9% (n = 126) were reported by informants to be functionally impaired prior to death. Myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 correlated with the ischaemic injury scale score, a global indicator of cerebrovascular disease (r = -0.23 and -0.20, respectively, Ps < 0.01). Chronic traumatic encephalopathy was the most common neurodegenerative disease (n = 151, 73.7%). Myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 were not associated with chronic traumatic encephalopathy status, but lower proteolipid protein 1 was associated with more severe chronic traumatic encephalopathy (P = 0.03). Myelin-associated glycoprotein and proteolipid protein 1 were not associated with other neurodegenerative disease pathologies. More years of football play was associated with lower proteolipid protein 1 [beta = -2.45, 95% confidence interval (CI) [-4.52, -0.38]] and compared with those who played <11 years of football (n = 78), those who played 11 or more years (n = 128) had lower myelin-associated glycoprotein (mean difference = 46.00, 95% CI [5.32, 86.69]) and proteolipid protein 1 (mean difference = 24.72, 95% CI [2.40, 47.05]). Younger age of first exposure corresponded to lower proteolipid protein 1 (beta = 4.35, 95% CI [0.25, 8.45]). Among brain donors who were aged 50 or older (n = 144), lower proteolipid protein 1 (beta = -0.02, 95% CI [-0.047, -0.001]) and myelin-associated glycoprotein (beta = -0.01, 95% CI [-0.03, -0.002]) were associated with higher Functional Activities Questionnaire scores. Lower myelin-associated glycoprotein correlated with higher Barratt Impulsiveness Scale-11 scores (beta = -0.02, 95% CI [-0.04, -0.0003]). Results suggest that decreased myelin may represent a late effect of repetitive head impacts that contributes to the manifestation of cognitive symptoms and impulsivity. Clinical-pathological correlation studies with prospective objective clinical assessments are needed to confirm our findings.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Departments of Biomedical, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Bedford Healthcare System, Bedford, MA, USA
- Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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Volumetric MRI Findings in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI) and Neuropsychological Outcome. Neuropsychol Rev 2023; 33:5-41. [PMID: 33656702 DOI: 10.1007/s11065-020-09474-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/20/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Region of interest (ROI) volumetric assessment has become a standard technique in quantitative neuroimaging. ROI volume is thought to represent a coarse proxy for making inferences about the structural integrity of a brain region when compared to normative values representative of a healthy sample, adjusted for age and various demographic factors. This review focuses on structural volumetric analyses that have been performed in the study of neuropathological effects from mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in relation to neuropsychological outcome. From a ROI perspective, the probable candidate structures that are most likely affected in mTBI represent the target regions covered in this review. These include the corpus callosum, cingulate, thalamus, pituitary-hypothalamic area, basal ganglia, amygdala, and hippocampus and associated structures including the fornix and mammillary bodies, as well as whole brain and cerebral cortex along with the cerebellum. Ventricular volumetrics are also reviewed as an indirect assessment of parenchymal change in response to injury. This review demonstrates the potential role and limitations of examining structural changes in the ROIs mentioned above in relation to neuropsychological outcome. There is also discussion and review of the role that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may play in structural outcome in mTBI. As emphasized in the conclusions, structural volumetric findings in mTBI are likely just a single facet of what should be a multimodality approach to image analysis in mTBI, with an emphasis on how the injury damages or disrupts neural network integrity. The review provides an historical context to quantitative neuroimaging in neuropsychology along with commentary about future directions for volumetric neuroimaging research in mTBI.
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Charney MF, Ye KQ, Fleysher R, DeMessie B, Stewart WF, Zimmerman ME, Kim M, Lipton RB, Lipton ML. Age of first exposure to soccer heading: Associations with cognitive, clinical, and imaging outcomes in the Einstein Soccer Study. Front Neurol 2023; 14:1042707. [PMID: 36846112 PMCID: PMC9947556 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2023.1042707] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 02/11/2023] Open
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Introduction The objective of this study is to assess the role of age at first exposure (AFE) to soccer heading as a predictor of known adverse associations of recent and longer-term heading with brain microstructure, cognitive, and behavioral features among adult amateur soccer players. Methods The sample included 276 active amateur soccer players (196 male and 81 female) aged 18-53 years old. AFE to soccer heading was treated as a binary variable, dichotomized at ≤ 10 years vs. >10 years old, based on a recently promulgated US Soccer policy, which bans heading for athletes ages 10 and under. Results We found that soccer players who began heading at age 10 or younger performed better on tests of working memory (p = 0.03) and verbal learning (p = 0.02), while accounting for duration of heading exposure, education, sex, and verbal intelligence. No difference in brain microstructure or behavioral measures was observed between the two exposure groups. Discussion The findings indicate that, among adult amateur soccer players, AFE to heading before age 10 compared to later start of heading, is not associated with adverse outcomes, and may be associated with better cognitive performance in young adulthood. Cumulative heading exposure across the lifespan, rather than early life exposure, may drive risk for adverse effects and should be the focus of future longitudinal studies to inform approaches to enhance player safety.
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- Molly F. Charney
- Gruss Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,*Correspondence: Molly F. Charney ✉
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Gruss Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Gruss Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States,Saul B. Korey Department of Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Neurology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
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- Gruss Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Radiology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States,Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, United States
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Asken BM, Tanner JA, VandeVrede L, Casaletto KB, Staffaroni AM, Mundada N, Fonseca C, Iaccarino L, La Joie R, Tsuei T, Mladinov M, Grant H, Shankar R, Wang KKW, Xu H, Cobigo Y, Rosen H, Gardner RC, Perry DC, Miller BL, Spina S, Seeley WW, Kramer JH, Grinberg LT, Rabinovici GD. Multi-Modal Biomarkers of Repetitive Head Impacts and Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome: A Clinicopathological Case Series. J Neurotrauma 2022; 39:1195-1213. [PMID: 35481808 PMCID: PMC9422800 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2022.0060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES) criteria were developed to aid diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) pathology during life. Interpreting clinical and biomarker findings in patients with TES during life necessitates autopsy-based determination of the neuropathological profile. We report a clinicopathological series of nine patients with previous repetitive head impacts (RHI) classified retrospectively using the recent TES research framework (100% male and white/Caucasian, age at death 49-84) who completed antemortem neuropsychological evaluations, T1-weighted magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor imaging (n = 6), (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (n = 5), and plasma measurement of neurofilament light (NfL), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and total tau (n = 8). Autopsies were performed on all patients. Cognitively, low test scores and longitudinal decline were relatively consistent for memory and executive function. Medial temporal lobe atrophy was observed in all nine patients. Poor white matter integrity was consistently found in the fornix. Glucose hypometabolism was most common in the medial temporal lobe and thalamus. Most patients had elevated plasma GFAP, NfL, and total tau at their initial visit and a subset showed longitudinally increasing concentrations. Neuropathologically, five of the nine patients had CTE pathology (n = 4 "High CTE"/McKee Stage III-IV, n = 1 "Low CTE"/McKee Stage I). Primary neuropathological diagnoses (i.e., the disease considered most responsible for observed symptoms) were frontotemporal lobar degeneration (n = 2 FTLD-TDP, n = 1 FTLD-tau), Alzheimer disease (n = 3), CTE (n = 2), and primary age-related tauopathy (n = 1). In addition, hippocampal sclerosis was a common neuropathological comorbidity (n = 5) and associated with limbic-predominant TDP-43 proteinopathy (n = 4) or FTLD-TDP (n = 1). Memory and executive function decline, limbic system brain changes (atrophy, decreased white matter integrity, hypometabolism), and plasma biomarker alterations are common in RHI and TES but may reflect multiple neuropathologies. In particular, the neuropathological differential for patients with RHI or TES presenting with medial temporal atrophy and memory loss should include limbic TDP-43. Researchers and clinicians should be cautious in attributing cognitive, neuroimaging, or other biomarker changes solely to CTE tau pathology based on previous RHI or a TES diagnosis alone.
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- Breton M. Asken
- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Program for Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Chemistry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Program for Neurotrauma, Neuroproteomics & Biomarkers Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychiatry and Chemistry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
- Brain Rehabilitation Research Center, Malcom Randall VA Medical Center, North Florida/South Georgia Veterans Health System, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
- Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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Phelps A, Alosco ML, Baucom Z, Hartlage K, Palmisano JN, Weuve J, Mez J, Tripodis Y, Stern RA. Association of Playing College American Football With Long-term Health Outcomes and Mortality. JAMA Netw Open 2022; 5:e228775. [PMID: 35442450 PMCID: PMC9021915 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.8775] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Exposure to repetitive head impacts from playing American football (including impacts resulting in symptomatic concussions and subconcussive trauma) is associated with increased risk for later-life health problems, including cognitive and neuropsychiatric decline and neurodegenerative disease. Most research on long-term health consequences of playing football has focused on former professional athletes, with limited studies of former college players. OBJECTIVES To estimate the prevalence of self-reported health conditions among former college football players compared with a sample of men in the general population as well as standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) among former college football players. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cohort study included data from 447 former University of Notre Dame (ND) football players aged 59 to 75 years who were seniors on the rosters from 1964 to 1980. A health outcomes survey was distributed to living players and next of kin of deceased players for whom contact information was available. The survey was completed from December 2018 to May 2019. EXPOSURE Participation in football at ND. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Prevalence of health outcomes was compared between living former players who completed the survey and propensity score-matched participants in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Standardized mortality ratios of all causes and specific causes of death among all former players were compared with those among men in the general US population. RESULTS A total of 216 living players completed the health survey (median age, 67 years; IQR, 63-70 years) and were compared with 638 participants in the HRS (median age, 66 years; IQR, 63-70 years). Former players reported a higher prevalence of cognitive impairment (10 [5%] vs 8 [1%]; P = .02), headaches (22 [10%] vs 22 [4%]; P = .001), cardiovascular disease (70 [33%] vs 128 [20%]; P = .001), hypercholesterolemia (111 [52%] vs 182 [29%]; P = .001), and alcohol use (185 [86%] vs 489 [77%]; P = .02) and a lower prevalence of diabetes (24 [11%] vs 146 [23%]; P = .001). All-cause mortality (SMR, 0.54; 95% CI, 0.42-0.67) and mortality from heart (SMR, 0.64; 95% CI, 0.39-0.99), circulatory (SMR, 0.23; 95% CI, 0.03-0.83), respiratory (SMR, 0.13; 95% CI, 0.00-0.70), and digestive system (SMR, 0.13; 95% CI, 0.00-0.74) disorders; lung cancer (SMR, 0.26; 95% CI, 0.05-0.77); and violence (SMR, 0.10; 95% CI, 0.00-0.58) were significantly lower in the ND cohort than in the general population. Mortality from brain and other nervous system cancers was significantly higher in the ND cohort (SMR, 3.82; 95% CI, 1.04-9.77). Whereas point estimates were greater for all neurodegenerative causes (SMR, 1.42; 95% CI, 0.29-4.18), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (SMR, 2.93; 95% CI, 0.36-10.59), and Parkinson disease (SMR, 2.07; 95% CI, 0.05-11.55), the difference did not reach statistical significance. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE In this cohort study of former college football players, both positive and negative health outcomes were observed. With more than 800 000 former college players living in the US, additional research appears to be needed to provide stakeholders with guidance to maximize factors that improve health outcomes and minimize factors that may increase risk for later-life morbidity and mortality.
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- Alyssa Phelps
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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Brett BL, Gardner RC, Godbout J, Dams-O’Connor K, Keene CD. Traumatic Brain Injury and Risk of Neurodegenerative Disorder. Biol Psychiatry 2022; 91:498-507. [PMID: 34364650 PMCID: PMC8636548 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2021.05.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 113] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/15/2021] [Revised: 04/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly of greater severity (i.e., moderate to severe), has been identified as a risk factor for all-cause dementia and Parkinson's disease, with risk for specific dementia subtypes being more variable. Among the limited studies involving neuropathological (postmortem) confirmation, the association between TBI and risk for neurodegenerative disease increases in complexity, with polypathology often reported on examination. The heterogeneous clinical and neuropathological outcomes associated with TBI are likely reflective of the multifaceted postinjury acute and chronic processes that may contribute to neurodegeneration. Acutely in TBI, axonal injury and disrupted transport influences molecular mechanisms fundamental to the formation of pathological proteins, such as amyloid-β peptide and hyperphosphorylated tau. These protein deposits may develop into amyloid-β plaques, hyperphosphorylated tau-positive neurofibrillary tangles, and dystrophic neurites. These and other characteristic neurodegenerative disease pathologies may then spread across brain regions. The acute immune and neuroinflammatory response involves alteration of microglia, astrocytes, oligodendrocytes, and endothelial cells; release of downstream pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines; and recruitment of peripheral immune cells. Although thought to be neuroprotective and reparative initially, prolongation of these processes may promote neurodegeneration. We review the evidence for TBI as a risk factor for neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer's dementia and Parkinson's disease, in clinical and neuropathological studies. Further, we describe the dynamic interactions between acute response to injury and chronic processes that may be involved in TBI-related pathogenesis and progression of neurodegeneration.
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- Benjamin L. Brett
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of
Wisconsin,Corresponding author: Benjamin L.
Brett, 414-955-7316, , Medical College of
Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226
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- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill
Institute for Neurosciences, University of California San Francisco and the San
Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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- Department of Neuroscience, Chronic Brain Injury Program,
The Ohio State Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH
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- Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance,
Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York NY
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University
of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
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Disparate Associations of Years of Football Participation and a Metric of Head Impact Exposure with Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Former Collegiate Football Players. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2022; 28:22-34. [PMID: 33563361 PMCID: PMC8353007 DOI: 10.1017/s1355617721000047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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OBJECTIVES Years of sport participation (YoP) is conventionally used to estimate cumulative repetitive head impacts (RHI) experienced by contact sport athletes. The relationship of this measure to other estimates of head impact exposure and the potential associations of these measures with neurobehavioral functioning are unknown. We investigated the association between YoP and the Head Impact Exposure Estimate (HIEE), and whether associations between the two estimates of exposure and neurobehavioral functioning varied. METHODS Former American football players (N = 58; age = 37.9 ± 1.5 years) completed in-person evaluations approximately 15 years following sport discontinuation. Assessments consisted of neuropsychological assessment and structured interviews of head impact history (i.e., HIEE). General linear models were fit to test the association between YoP and the HIEE, and their associations with neurobehavioral outcomes. RESULTS YoP was weakly correlated with the HIEE, p = .005, R2 = .13. Higher YoP was associated with worse performance on the Symbol Digit Modalities Test, p = .004, R2 = .14, and Trail Making Test-B, p = .001, R2 = .18. The HIEE was associated with worse performance on the Delayed Recall trial of the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised, p = .020, R2 = .09, self-reported cognitive difficulties (Neuro-QoL Cognitive Function), p = .011, R2 = .10, psychological distress (Brief Symptom Inventory-18), p = .018, R2 = .10, and behavioral regulation (Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function for Adults), p = .017, R2 = .10. CONCLUSIONS YoP was marginally associated with the HIEE, a comprehensive estimate of head impacts sustained over a career. Associations between each exposure estimate and neurobehavioral functioning outcomes differed. Findings have meaningful implications for efforts to accurately quantify the risk of adverse long-term neurobehavioral outcomes potentially associated with RHI.
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Foley ÉM, Tripodis Y, Yhang E, Koerte IK, Martin BM, Palmisano J, Makris N, Schultz V, Lepage C, Muehlmann M, Wróbel PP, Guenette JP, Cantu RC, Lin AP, Coleman M, Mez J, Bouix S, Shenton ME, Stern RA, Alosco ML. Quantifying and Examining Reserve in Symptomatic Former National Football League Players. J Alzheimers Dis 2022; 85:675-689. [PMID: 34864657 PMCID: PMC8926024 DOI: 10.3233/jad-210379] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Repetitive head impacts (RHI) from contact sports have been associated with cognitive and neuropsychiatric disorders. However, not all individuals exposed to RHI develop such disorders. This may be explained by the reserve hypothesis. It remains unclear if the reserve hypothesis accounts for the heterogenous symptom presentation in RHI-exposed individuals. Moreover, optimal measurement of reserve in this population is unclear and likely unique from non-athlete populations. OBJECTIVE We examined the association between metrics of reserve and cognitive and neuropsychiatric functioning in 89 symptomatic former National Football League players. METHODS Individual-level proxies (e.g., education) defined reserve. We additionally quantified reserve as remaining residual variance in 1) episodic memory and 2) executive functioning performance, after accounting for demographics and brain pathology. Associations between reserve metrics and cognitive and neuropsychiatric functioning were examined. RESULTS Higher reading ability was associated with better attention/information processing (β=0.25; 95% CI, 0.05-0.46), episodic memory (β=0.27; 95% CI, 0.06-0.48), semantic and phonemic fluency (β=0.24; 95% CI, 0.02-0.46; β=0.38; 95% CI, 0.17-0.59), and behavioral regulation (β=-0.26; 95% CI, -0.48, -0.03) performance. There were no effects for other individual-level proxies. Residual episodic memory variance was associated with better attention/information processing (β=0.45; 95% CI, 0.25, 0.65), executive functioning (β=0.36; 95% CI, 0.15, 0.57), and semantic fluency (β=0.38; 95% CI, 0.17, 0.59) performance. Residual executive functioning variance was associated with better attention/information processing (β=0.44; 95% CI, 0.24, 0.64) and episodic memory (β=0.37; 95% CI, 0.16, 0.58) performance. CONCLUSION Traditional reserve proxies (e.g., years of education, occupational attainment) have limitations and may be unsuitable for use in elite athlete samples. Alternative approaches of reserve quantification may prove more suitable for this population.
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- Éimear M. Foley
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands,Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Center for Morphometric Analysis, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany,Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- QEII Health Sciences Centre, Nova Scotia, Canada
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- Department of Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA,Correspondence to: Michael L. Alosco, PhD, Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E. Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA 02118, USA. Tel.: +1 617 358 6029;
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Brett BL, Kerr ZY, Aggarwal NT, Chandran A, Mannix R, Walton S, DeFreese JD, Echemendia RJ, Guskiewicz KM, McCrea MA, Meehan WP. Cumulative Concussion and Odds of Stroke in Former National Football League Players. Stroke 2022; 53:e5-e8. [PMID: 34839696 PMCID: PMC8966617 DOI: 10.1161/strokeaha.121.035607] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Postmortem and experimental studies indicate a potential association between repeated concussions and stroke risk in older contact sport athletes. We examined the relationship between concussion and stroke history in former National Football League players aged ≥50 years. METHODS Former professional football players aged ≥50 years who played ≥1 year in the National Football League were enrolled in the cross-sectional study. Indirect standardization was used to calculate overall and decade-specific standardized prevalence ratios. Logistic regression using Firth's bias reduction method examined the association between lifetime concussion history 0 (n=119; 12.2%), 1 to 2 (n=152; 15.5%), 3 to 5 (n=242; 24.7%), 6 to 9 (201; 20.5%), and 10+(n=265; 27.1%) and stroke. Adjusted odds ratios for stroke were calculated for concussion history groups, age, and coronary artery disease and/or myocardial infarction. RESULTS The 979 participants who met inclusion criteria had a mean age of 65.0±9.0 years (range, 50-99). The prevalence of stroke was 3.4% (n=33), significantly lower than expected based on rates of stroke in US men aged 50 and over (standardized prevalence ratio=0.56, Z= -4.56, P<0.001). Greater odds of stroke history were associated with concussion history (10+ versus 0, adjusted odds ratio [95% CI]=5.51 [1.61-28.95]), cardiovascular disease (adjusted odds ratio [95% CI]=2.24 [1.01-4.77]), and age (1-year-increase adjusted odds ratio [95% CI]=1.07 [1.02-1.11]). CONCLUSIONS The prevalence of stroke among former National Football League players aged ≥50 years was lower than the general population, with significantly increased risk among those with 10 or more prior concussions. Findings add to the evidence suggesting that traumatic brain injuries are associated with increased risk of stroke. Clinically, management of cardio- and cerebrovascular health may be pertinent to those with a history of multiple prior concussions.
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- Benjamin L. Brett
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin,Correspondence: Benjamin L. Brett, 414-955-7316, , Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, Twitter: @BenjaminBrett1
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- Department of Exercise and Sport Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Alosco ML, Mian AZ, Buch K, Farris CW, Uretsky M, Tripodis Y, Baucom Z, Martin B, Palmisano J, Puzo C, Ang TFA, Joshi P, Goldstein LE, Au R, Katz DI, Dwyer B, Daneshvar DH, Nowinski C, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, Huber BR, Alvarez VE, Stern RA, Stein TD, Killiany RJ, McKee AC, Mez J. Structural MRI profiles and tau correlates of atrophy in autopsy-confirmed CTE. Alzheimers Res Ther 2021; 13:193. [PMID: 34876229 PMCID: PMC8653514 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-021-00928-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2021] [Accepted: 10/31/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
BACKGROUND Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a neurodegenerative tauopathy, cannot currently be diagnosed during life. Atrophy patterns on magnetic resonance imaging could be an effective in vivo biomarker of CTE, but have not been characterized. Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in CTE are unknown. Here, we characterized macrostructural magnetic resonance imaging features of brain donors with autopsy-confirmed CTE. The association between hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) and atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging was examined. METHODS Magnetic resonance imaging scans were obtained by medical record requests for 55 deceased symptomatic men with autopsy-confirmed CTE and 31 men (n = 11 deceased) with normal cognition at the time of the scan, all >60 years Three neuroradiologists visually rated regional atrophy and microvascular disease (0 [none]-4 [severe]), microbleeds, and cavum septum pellucidum presence. Neuropathologists rated tau severity and atrophy at autopsy using semi-quantitative scales. RESULTS Compared to unimpaired males, donors with CTE (45/55=stage III/IV) had greater atrophy of the orbital-frontal (mean diff.=1.29), dorsolateral frontal (mean diff.=1.31), superior frontal (mean diff.=1.05), anterior temporal (mean diff.=1.57), and medial temporal lobes (mean diff.=1.60), and larger lateral (mean diff.=1.72) and third (mean diff.=0.80) ventricles, controlling for age at scan (ps<0.05). There were no effects for posterior atrophy or microvascular disease. Donors with CTE had increased odds of a cavum septum pellucidum (OR = 6.7, p < 0.05). Among donors with CTE, greater tau severity across 14 regions corresponded to greater atrophy on magnetic resonance imaging (beta = 0.68, p < 0.01). CONCLUSIONS These findings support frontal-temporal atrophy as a magnetic resonance imaging finding of CTE and show p-tau accumulation is associated with atrophy in CTE.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Departments of Biomedical, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- US Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- US Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
- National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- US Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- US Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
- US Department of Veteran Affairs, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord Street, Suite B7800, Boston, MA, 02118, USA.
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Vale A, Post A, Cournoyer J, Hoshizaki TB, Gilchrist MD. Influence of play type on the magnitude and number of head impacts sustained in youth American football. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2021; 25:1195-1210. [PMID: 34788175 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2021.2003345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The magnitude and number of head impacts experienced by young American football players are associated with negative brain health outcomes and may be affected by play-type strategies. The purpose of this research was to examine how play type affects the magnitude and number of head impacts in youth American tackle football. Head impacts were recorded for 30 games in the 5-9 age category and 30 games in the 9-14 age category. Impacts using physical and finite element models were conducted to determine the brain strain. Run plays had a higher head impact frequency in both age groups (p < 0.05). This increase in head impacts was consistent for all positions (p < 0.05), except wide receiver, and offensive line and defensive back in the 9-14 age group (p > 0.05). Both age groups experienced significantly different magnitude proportions with higher numbers of very low and low strain magnitude impacts during run plays (p < 0.05), and a higher proportion of moderate magnitude impacts in the 5-9 age category (p < 0.05). This data can be used to inform and educate teams and coaches and influence decisions around the use of runs and passing plays that may lead to a decrease in head impacts.
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- Adam Vale
- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.,School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Walton SR, Kerr ZY, Mannix R, Brett BL, Chandran A, DeFreese JD, McCrea MA, Guskiewicz KM, Meehan WP, Echemendia RJ. Subjective Concerns Regarding the Effects of Sport-Related Concussion on Long-Term Brain Health among Former NFL Players: An NFL-LONG Study. Sports Med 2021; 52:1189-1203. [PMID: 34773581 DOI: 10.1007/s40279-021-01589-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/21/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Potential links between a history of sport-related concussions and later-life neurobiological and psychological brain health have been studied in former collision-sport athletes. However, empirical studies of how former athletes perceive the future of their brain health as a result of these injuries are missing. OBJECTIVES We aimed to (1) identify the extent to which former National Football League players currently have concerns about their long-term psychological and cognitive functioning as a result of concussions sustained while playing football; (2) examine whether current concerns are different than concerns they had while playing football; (3) examine the relationship between current brain health concerns and self-reported concussion history (SR-CHx); and (4) explore other important factors associated with these concerns. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, former National Football League players with a SR-CHx of one or more concussions (n = 1514; aged mean [standard deviation] = 52.3 [15.7] years) completed a general health questionnaire. Participants reported their lifetime concussion history, as well as both their current concerns and concerns while playing football (i.e., retrospective concerns) regarding the long-term effects of concussions on their memory, thinking skills, and risk of developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Current and retrospective concerns were self-reported on a five-point Likert scale. Four concussion history categories were created based on SR-CHx: 1-2 (n = 309); 3-5 (n = 413); 6-9 (n = 356); and 10 + (n = 436) lifetime concussions. Proportions of participants reporting each level of current and retrospective concerns were examined to identify whether concerns presently exist in these former players, and whether their current concerns are different than retrospective concerns. Next, we explored associations between current concerns and SR-CHx. RESULTS More than one-third of participants reported being currently "extremely concerned" about memory problems (36.9%), thinking skills (37.8%), and developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (39.5%). In contrast, when asked about concerns while playing, most reported being "not at all concerned" regarding memory = 61.2%, thinking skills = 56.1%, and developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy = 71.2%. Of those who retrospectively endorsed being "not at all" or "slightly" concerned regarding memory (n = 1159/1514), thinking skills (n = 1080/1514), and developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (n = 1219/1514), approximately half reported being currently "moderately" or "extremely" concerned about those same issues (n = 586/1159; n = 534/1080; n = 619/1219, respectively). Current concerns regarding memory (χ216 = 316.61; p < 0.001; V = 0.264), thinking skills (χ216 = 333.17; p < 0.001; V = 0.271), and developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (χ216 = 280.85; p < 0.001; V = 0.249) were significantly related to SR-CHx, with more concussions being associated with greater current concerns. CONCLUSIONS Former National Football League players reported significant concerns regarding the potential effects of their prior concussions on long-term brain health, and these concerns are more prevalent now than when they were playing football. Cognitive and mental health concerns are readily identifiable targets for clinical intervention. Clinicians working with former players may wish to explore the extent to which individual players experience these concerns, the nature and depth of these concerns, and the impact of these concerns on the player's functioning and well-being.
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- Samuel R Walton
- Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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- Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
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- Center for the Study of Retired Athletes, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention and Boston Children's Hospital, Waltham, MA, USA
- Department of Pediatrics and Orthopedics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO, USA.
- University Orthopedics Center Concussion Clinic, 101 Regent Ct., State College, PA, 16801, USA.
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Cournoyer J, Karton C, Koncan D, Gilchrist MD, Cantu RC, Hoshizaki TB. Brain trauma exposure for American tackle football players 5 to 9 and 9 to 14 years of age. J Biomech 2021; 127:110689. [PMID: 34416530 DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2021.110689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2020] [Revised: 05/28/2021] [Accepted: 08/09/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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American football helmets used by youth players are currently designed and tested to the same standards as professionals. The National Operating Committee on Standard and Safety requested research aiming at understanding the differences in brain trauma in youth American football for players aged five to nine and nine to fourteen years old to inform a youth specific American football standard. Video analysis and laboratory reconstructions of head impacts were undertaken to measure differences in head impact frequency, event types, and magnitudes of maximum principal strain (MPS) for the two age groups. Overall frequencies and frequencies for five categories of MPS representing different magnitudes of risk were tabulated. The MPS categories were very low (<0.08), low (0.08-0.169), medium (0.17-0.259), high (0.26-0.349) and very high (>0.35). Both cohorts experienced a majority of head impacts (>56%) at very low magnitude of MPS. Youth American football players aged 9-14 yrs. sustained a greater frequency of head impacts at MPS between 0.08 and 0.169 % associated with changes in brain structure and function. There were no differences in overall frequency, or in frequency of head impacts in other categories of MPS. The proportion of impacts considered injurious (MPS > 0.08) was greater in the 5-9 group (44%), than the 9-14 group (39%), and impacts above 0.35 % were only reported for the younger age group. The larger helmet-to-shoulder ratio in the younger age groups may have contributed to this finding suggesting that youth American football players under the age of nine would benefit from a child-specific football helmet.
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- J Cournoyer
- University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, Ottawa, Canada.
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- University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, Ottawa, Canada
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- University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, Ottawa, Canada
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- University College Dublin, School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and Chronic Encephalopathy Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA; Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA
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- University of Ottawa, School of Human Kinetics, Ottawa, Canada
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Meliambro J, Karton C, Cournoyer J, Post A, Hoshizaki TB, Gilchrist MD. Comparison of head impact frequency and magnitude in youth tackle football and ice hockey. Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin 2021; 25:936-951. [PMID: 34615414 DOI: 10.1080/10255842.2021.1987420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Repetitive head impacts are a growing concern for youth and adolescent contact sport athletes as they have been linked to long term negative brain health outcomes. Of all contact sports, tackle football and ice hockey have been reported to have the highest incidence of head or brain injury however, each sporting environment is unique with distinct rules and regulations regarding contact and collisions. The purpose of this research was to measure and compare the head impact frequency and estimated magnitude of brain tissue strain, amongst youth tackle football and ice hockey players during game play. Head impact frequency was documented by video analysis of youth tackle football and ice hockey game play. Impact magnitude was determined through physical laboratory reconstructions and finite element modelling to estimate brain tissue strains. Tackle football demonstrated significantly higher impact frequency (P < 0.01) and magnitude of estimated brain tissue strains (P < 0.01) compared to ice hockey. A significantly higher number of higher strain head impacts were documented in tackle football when compared to ice hockey (P < 0.01). These differences suggest that youth football players may experience increased frequency and magnitude of estimated brain tissue strains in comparison to youth hockey.
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- Julia Meliambro
- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
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- School of Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.,School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- School of Mechanical & Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Heileson JL, Anzalone AJ, Carbuhn AF, Askow AT, Stone JD, Turner SM, Hillyer LM, Ma DWL, Luedke JA, Jagim AR, Oliver JM. The effect of omega-3 fatty acids on a biomarker of head trauma in NCAA football athletes: a multi-site, non-randomized study. J Int Soc Sports Nutr 2021; 18:65. [PMID: 34579748 PMCID: PMC8477477 DOI: 10.1186/s12970-021-00461-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Background American-style football (ASF) athletes are at risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and exhibit elevated levels of serum neurofilament light (Nf-L), a biomarker of axonal injury that is associated with repetitive head impact exposure over the course of a season of competition. Supplementation with the w-3 fatty acid (FA) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) attenuates serum Nf-L elevations and improves aspects of CVD, such as the omega-3 index (O3I). However, the effect of combining the w-3 FA eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) with DHA on, specifically, serum Nf-L in ASF athletes is unknown. Therefore, this study assessed the effect of supplemental w-3 FA (EPA+DPA+DHA) on serum Nf-L, plasma w-3 FAs, the O3I, and surrogate markers of inflammation over the course of a season. Methods A multi-site, non-randomized design, utilizing two American football teams was employed. One team (n = 3 1) received supplementation with a highly bioavailablew-3 FA formulation (2000mg DHA, 560mg EPA, 320mg DPA, Mindset®, Struct Nutrition, Missoula, MT) during pre-season and throughout the regular season, while the second team served as the control (n = 35) and did not undergo supplementation. Blood was sampled at specific times throughout pre- and regular season coincident w ith changes in intensity, physical contact, and changes in the incidence and severity of head impacts. Group differences were determined via a mixed-model between-within subjects ANOVA. Effect sizes were calculated using Cohen’s dfor all between-group differences. Significance was set a priori at p< .05. Results Compared to the control group, ASF athletes in the treatment group experienced large increases in plasma EPA (p < .001, d = 1.71) and DHA (p < .001, d = 2.10) which contributed to increases in the O3I (p < .001, d = 2.16) and the EPA:AA ratio (p = .001, d = 0.83) and a reduction in the w-6: w-3 ratio (p < .001, d = 1.80). w-3 FA supplementation attenuated elevations in Nf-L (p = .024). The control group experienced a significant increase in Nf-L compared to baseline at several measurement time points (T2, T3, and T4 [p range < .001 – .005, drange = 0.59-0.85]). Conclusions These findings suggest a cardio- and neuroprotective effect of combined EPA+DPA+DHA w-3 FA supplementation in American-style football athletes. Trial registration This trial was registered with the ISRCTN registry (ISRCTN90306741).
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- Jeffery L Heileson
- Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
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- Nutrition and Exercise Performance Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
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- Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
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- Athletics Department, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, USA
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- Sports Medicine, Mayo Clinic Health Systems, Onalaska, WI, USA
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- Department of Kinesiology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, USA
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Alosco ML, Mariani ML, Adler CH, Balcer LJ, Bernick C, Au R, Banks SJ, Barr WB, Bouix S, Cantu RC, Coleman MJ, Dodick DW, Farrer LA, Geda YE, Katz DI, Koerte IK, Kowall NW, Lin AP, Marcus DS, Marek KL, McClean MD, McKee AC, Mez J, Palmisano JN, Peskind ER, Tripodis Y, Turner RW, Wethe JV, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Shenton ME, Stern RA. Developing methods to detect and diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy during life: rationale, design, and methodology for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project. Alzheimers Res Ther 2021; 13:136. [PMID: 34384490 PMCID: PMC8357968 DOI: 10.1186/s13195-021-00872-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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BACKGROUND Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease that has been neuropathologically diagnosed in brain donors exposed to repetitive head impacts, including boxers and American football, soccer, ice hockey, and rugby players. CTE cannot yet be diagnosed during life. In December 2015, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke awarded a seven-year grant (U01NS093334) to fund the "Diagnostics, Imaging, and Genetics Network for the Objective Study and Evaluation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (DIAGNOSE CTE) Research Project." The objectives of this multicenter project are to: develop in vivo fluid and neuroimaging biomarkers for CTE; characterize its clinical presentation; refine and validate clinical research diagnostic criteria (i.e., traumatic encephalopathy syndrome [TES]); examine repetitive head impact exposure, genetic, and other risk factors; and provide shared resources of anonymized data and biological samples to the research community. In this paper, we provide a detailed overview of the rationale, design, and methods for the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project. METHODS The targeted sample and sample size was 240 male participants, ages 45-74, including 120 former professional football players, 60 former collegiate football players, and 60 asymptomatic participants without a history of head trauma or participation in organized contact sports. Participants were evaluated at one of four U.S. sites and underwent the following baseline procedures: neurological and neuropsychological examinations; tau and amyloid positron emission tomography; magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy; lumbar puncture; blood and saliva collection; and standardized self-report measures of neuropsychiatric, cognitive, and daily functioning. Study partners completed similar informant-report measures. Follow-up evaluations were intended to be in-person and at 3 years post-baseline. Multidisciplinary diagnostic consensus conferences are held, and the reliability and validity of TES diagnostic criteria are examined. RESULTS Participant enrollment and all baseline evaluations were completed in February 2020. Three-year follow-up evaluations began in October 2019. However, in-person evaluation ceased with the COVID-19 pandemic, and resumed as remote, 4-year follow-up evaluations (including telephone-, online-, and videoconference-based cognitive, neuropsychiatric, and neurologic examinations, as well as in-home blood draw) in February 2021. CONCLUSIONS Findings from the DIAGNOSE CTE Research Project should facilitate detection and diagnosis of CTE during life, and thereby accelerate research on risk factors, mechanisms, epidemiology, treatment, and prevention of CTE. TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT02798185.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Population Health and Ophthalmology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, Las Vegas, NV, USA
- Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Framingham Heart Study, and Slone Epidemiology Center, Boston, MA, USA
- Departments of Anatomy & Neurobiology and Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Departments of Medicine (Biomedical Genetics), Neurology, Ophthalmology, Epidemiology, and Biostatistics, BU Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Alzheimer's Disease and Memory Disorders Program, Department of Neurology, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
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- Institute for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Invicro, LLC, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Framingham Heart Study, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center (BEDAC), Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- VA Northwest Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Clinical Research & Leadership, The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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- Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience, Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA
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- Banner Alzheimer's Institute, University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Translational Genomics Research Institute, and Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, AZ, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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Asken BM, Rabinovici GD. Identifying degenerative effects of repetitive head trauma with neuroimaging: a clinically-oriented review. Acta Neuropathol Commun 2021; 9:96. [PMID: 34022959 PMCID: PMC8141132 DOI: 10.1186/s40478-021-01197-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2021] [Accepted: 05/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND AND SCOPE OF REVIEW Varying severities and frequencies of head trauma may result in dynamic acute and chronic pathophysiologic responses in the brain. Heightened attention to long-term effects of head trauma, particularly repetitive head trauma, has sparked recent efforts to identify neuroimaging biomarkers of underlying disease processes. Imaging modalities like structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) are the most clinically applicable given their use in neurodegenerative disease diagnosis and differentiation. In recent years, researchers have targeted repetitive head trauma cohorts in hopes of identifying in vivo biomarkers for underlying biologic changes that might ultimately improve diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living persons. These populations most often include collision sport athletes (e.g., American football, boxing) and military veterans with repetitive low-level blast exposure. We provide a clinically-oriented review of neuroimaging data from repetitive head trauma cohorts based on structural MRI, FDG-PET, Aβ-PET, and tau-PET. We supplement the review with two patient reports of neuropathology-confirmed, clinically impaired adults with prior repetitive head trauma who underwent structural MRI, FDG-PET, Aβ-PET, and tau-PET in addition to comprehensive clinical examinations before death. REVIEW CONCLUSIONS Group-level comparisons to controls without known head trauma have revealed inconsistent regional volume differences, with possible propensity for medial temporal, limbic, and subcortical (thalamus, corpus callosum) structures. Greater frequency and severity (i.e., length) of cavum septum pellucidum (CSP) is observed in repetitive head trauma cohorts compared to unexposed controls. It remains unclear whether CSP predicts a particular neurodegenerative process, but CSP presence should increase suspicion that clinical impairment is at least partly attributable to the individual's head trauma exposure (regardless of underlying disease). PET imaging similarly has not revealed a prototypical metabolic or molecular pattern associated with repetitive head trauma or predictive of CTE based on the most widely studied radiotracers. Given the range of clinical syndromes and neurodegenerative pathologies observed in a subset of adults with prior repetitive head trauma, structural MRI and PET imaging may still be useful for differential diagnosis (e.g., assessing suspected Alzheimer's disease).
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- Breton M. Asken
- Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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- Departments of Neurology, Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Memory and Aging Center, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, 675 Nelson Rising Lane, Suite 190, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
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Katz DI, Bernick C, Dodick DW, Mez J, Mariani ML, Adler CH, Alosco ML, Balcer LJ, Banks SJ, Barr WB, Brody DL, Cantu RC, Dams-O'Connor K, Geda YE, Jordan BD, McAllister TW, Peskind ER, Petersen RC, Wethe JV, Zafonte RD, Foley ÉM, Babcock DJ, Koroshetz WJ, Tripodis Y, McKee AC, Shenton ME, Cummings JL, Reiman EM, Stern RA. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Diagnostic Criteria for Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome. Neurology 2021; 96:848-863. [PMID: 33722990 PMCID: PMC8166432 DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000011850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 47.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2020] [Accepted: 02/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To develop evidence-informed, expert consensus research diagnostic criteria for traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES), the clinical disorder associated with neuropathologically diagnosed chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). METHODS A panel of 20 expert clinician-scientists in neurology, neuropsychology, psychiatry, neurosurgery, and physical medicine and rehabilitation, from 11 academic institutions, participated in a modified Delphi procedure to achieve consensus, initiated at the First National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Consensus Workshop to Define the Diagnostic Criteria for TES, April, 2019. Before consensus, panelists reviewed evidence from all published cases of CTE with neuropathologic confirmation, and they examined the predictive validity data on clinical features in relation to CTE pathology from a large clinicopathologic study (n = 298). RESULTS Consensus was achieved in 4 rounds of the Delphi procedure. Diagnosis of TES requires (1) substantial exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHIs) from contact sports, military service, or other causes; (2) core clinical features of cognitive impairment (in episodic memory and/or executive functioning) and/or neurobehavioral dysregulation; (3) a progressive course; and (4) that the clinical features are not fully accounted for by any other neurologic, psychiatric, or medical conditions. For those meeting criteria for TES, functional dependence is graded on 5 levels, ranging from independent to severe dementia. A provisional level of certainty for CTE pathology is determined based on specific RHI exposure thresholds, core clinical features, functional status, and additional supportive features, including delayed onset, motor signs, and psychiatric features. CONCLUSIONS New consensus diagnostic criteria for TES were developed with a primary goal of facilitating future CTE research. These criteria will be revised as updated clinical and pathologic information and in vivo biomarkers become available.
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- Douglas I. Katz
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Megan L. Mariani
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Charles H. Adler
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Michael L. Alosco
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Laura J. Balcer
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Sarah J. Banks
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - William B. Barr
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - David L. Brody
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Robert C. Cantu
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Kristen Dams-O'Connor
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Yonas E. Geda
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Barry D. Jordan
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Thomas W. McAllister
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Elaine R. Peskind
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Ronald C. Petersen
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Jennifer V. Wethe
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Ross D. Zafonte
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Éimear M. Foley
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Debra J. Babcock
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Walter J. Koroshetz
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Yorghos Tripodis
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Ann C. McKee
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
| | - Martha E. Shenton
- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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- From the Boston University CTE Center (D.I.K.), Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston; Brain Injury Program (D.I.K.), Encompass Health Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, MA; University of Washington Memory & Brain Wellness Clinic (C.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Department of Neurology (D.W.D., C.H.A.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Boston University CTE Center (J.M., M.L.A.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Boston University CTE Center (M.L.M.), Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Neurology (L.J.B.), Ophthalmology, and Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Departments of Neurosciences and Psychiatry University of California San Diego (S.J.B.), La Jolla; Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry (W.B.B.), New York University Grossman School of Medicine; Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (D.L.B.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Neurology, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (R.C.C.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, MA; Departments of Rehabilitation Medicine and Neurology (K.D.-O.C.), Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York; Department of Neurology (Y.E.G.), Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ; Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Center (B.D.J.), Downey, CA; Department of Neurology (B.D.J.), Keck School of Medicine of USC. Los Angeles, CA; Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology (T.W.M.), Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; Veterans Affairs Northwest Mental Illness (E.R.P.), Research, Education, and Clinical Center, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle, WA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (E.R.P.), University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle; Mayo Clinic Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (R.C.P.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Psychiatry and Psychology (J.V.W.), Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, AZ; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (R.D.Z.), Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston; Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (É.M.F.), Maastricht University, the Netherlands, Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (D.J.B.), National Institutes of Health; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (W.J.K.), Bethesda, MD; Boston University CTE Center (Y.T.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health; Boston University CTE Center (A.C.M.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine; VA Boston Healthcare System (A.C.M.), US Department of Veteran Affairs, MA; Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory (M.E.S.), Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Chambers-Grundy Center for Transformative Neuroscience (J.L.C.), Department of Brain Health, University of Nevada School of Integrated Health Sciences; Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health (J.L.C.), Las Vegas, NV; Banner Alzheimer's Institute (E.M.R.), Arizona State University; Department of Psychiatry (E.M.R.), University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ; and Boston University CTE Center (R.A.S.), Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, MA
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Lee H, Xu F, Liu X, Koundal S, Zhu X, Davis J, Yanez D, Schrader J, Stanisavljevic A, Rothman DL, Wardlaw J, Van Nostrand WE, Benveniste H. Diffuse white matter loss in a transgenic rat model of cerebral amyloid angiopathy. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 2021; 41:1103-1118. [PMID: 32791876 PMCID: PMC8054716 DOI: 10.1177/0271678x20944226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Diffuse white matter (WM) disease is highly prevalent in elderly with cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD). In humans, cSVD such as cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) often coexists with Alzheimer's disease imposing a significant impediment for characterizing their distinct effects on WM. Here we studied the burden of age-related CAA pathology on WM disease in a novel transgenic rat model of CAA type 1 (rTg-DI). A cohort of rTg-DI and wild-type rats was scanned longitudinally using MRI for characterization of morphometry, cerebral microbleeds (CMB) and WM integrity. In rTg-DI rats, a distinct pattern of WM loss was observed at 9 M and 11 M. MRI also revealed manifestation of small CMB in thalamus at 6 M, which preceded WM loss and progressively enlarged until the moribund disease stage. Histology revealed myelin loss in the corpus callosum and thalamic CMB in all rTg-DI rats, the latter of which manifested in close proximity to occluded and calcified microvessels. The quantitation of CAA load in rTg-DI rats revealed that the most extensive microvascular Aβ deposition occurred in the thalamus. For the first time using in vivo MRI, we show that CAA type 1 pathology alone is associated with a distinct pattern of WM loss.
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- Hedok Lee
- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
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- Brain Research Imaging Centre, Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, Dementia Research Institute at the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience and the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Rhode Island, RI, USA
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- Department of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale School of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA
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Alosco ML, Culhane J, Mez J. Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: Targets for the Academic Memory Disorders Clinic. Neurotherapeutics 2021; 18:772-791. [PMID: 33847906 PMCID: PMC8423967 DOI: 10.1007/s13311-021-01028-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 02/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with exposure to repetitive head impacts, such as those from contact sports. The pathognomonic lesion for CTE is the perivascular accumulation of hyper-phosphorylated tau in neurons and other cell process at the depths of sulci. CTE cannot be diagnosed during life at this time, limiting research on risk factors, mechanisms, epidemiology, and treatment. There is an urgent need for in vivo biomarkers that can accurately detect CTE and differentiate it from other neurological disorders. Neuroimaging is an integral component of the clinical evaluation of neurodegenerative diseases and will likely aid in diagnosing CTE during life. In this qualitative review, we present the current evidence on neuroimaging biomarkers for CTE with a focus on molecular, structural, and functional modalities routinely used as part of a dementia evaluation. Supporting imaging-pathological correlation studies are also presented. We targeted neuroimaging studies of living participants at high risk for CTE (e.g., aging former elite American football players, fighters). We conclude that an optimal tau PET radiotracer with high affinity for the 3R/4R neurofibrillary tangles in CTE has not yet been identified. Amyloid PET scans have tended to be negative. Converging structural and functional imaging evidence together with neuropathological evidence show frontotemporal and medial temporal lobe neurodegeneration, and increased likelihood for a cavum septum pellucidum. The literature offers promising neuroimaging biomarker targets of CTE, but it is limited by cross-sectional studies of small samples where the presence of underlying CTE is unknown. Imaging-pathological correlation studies will be important for the development and validation of neuroimaging biomarkers of CTE.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Suite B7800, MA, 02118, Boston, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Suite B7800, MA, 02118, Boston, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 72 E Concord St, Suite B7800, MA, 02118, Boston, USA
- Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, MA, Boston, USA
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Brett BL, Koch KM, Muftuler LT, Budde M, McCrea MA, Meier TB. Association of Head Impact Exposure with White Matter Macrostructure and Microstructure Metrics. J Neurotrauma 2021; 38:474-484. [PMID: 33003979 PMCID: PMC7875606 DOI: 10.1089/neu.2020.7376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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Prior studies have reported white matter abnormalities associated with a history of cumulative concussion and/or repetitive head impacts (RHI) in contact sport athletes. Growing evidence suggests these abnormalities may begin as more subtle changes earlier in life in active younger athletes. We investigated the relationship between prior concussion and contact sport exposure with multi-modal white matter microstructure and macrostructure using magnetic resonance imaging. High school and collegiate athletes (n = 121) completed up to four evaluations involving neuroimaging. Linear mixed-effects models examined associations of years of contact sport exposure (i.e., RHI proxy) and prior concussion across multiple metrics of white matter, including total white matter volume, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) metrics, diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) metrics, and quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM). A significant inverse association between cumulative years of contact sport exposure and QSM was observed, F(1, 237.77) = 4.67, p = 0.032. Cumulative contact sport exposure was also associated with decreased radial diffusivity, F(1, 114.56) = 5.81, p = 0.018, as well as elevated fractional anisotropy, F(1, 115.32) = 5.40, p = 0.022, and radial kurtosis, F(1, 113.45) = 4.03, p = 0.047. In contrast, macroscopic white matter volume was not significantly associated with cumulative contact sport exposure (p > 0.05). Concussion history was not significantly associated with QSM, DTI, DKI, or white matter volume (all, p > 0.05). Cumulative contact sport exposure is associated with subtle differences in white matter microstructure, but not gross white matter macrostructure, in young active athletes. Longitudinal follow-up is required to assess the progression of these findings to determine their contribution to potential adverse effects later in life.
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- Benjamin L. Brett
- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Depertment of Radiology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Imaging Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Depertment of Radiology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Neurology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Center for Neurotrauma Research, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Rowland B, Chua AS, Liao H, Martin B, Jarnagin J, Chaisson CE, Pasternak O, Karmacharya S, Koerte IK, Cantu RC, Kowall NW, McKee AC, Shenton ME, Greenwald R, McClean M, Stern RA, Lin A. A magnetic resonance spectroscopy investigation in symptomatic former NFL players. Brain Imaging Behav 2020; 14:1419-1429. [PMID: 30848432 PMCID: PMC6994233 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-019-00060-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The long-term neurologic consequences of exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI) are not well understood. This study used magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) to examine later-life neurochemistry and its association with RHI and clinical function in former National Football League (NFL) players. The sample included 77 symptomatic former NFL players and 23 asymptomatic individuals without a head trauma history. Participants completed cognitive, behavior, and mood measures. N-acetyl aspartate, glutamate/glutamine, choline, myo-inositol, creatine, and glutathione were measured in the posterior (PCG) and anterior (ACG) cingulate gyrus, and parietal white matter (PWM). A cumulative head impact index (CHII) estimated RHI. In former NFL players, a higher CHII correlated with lower PWM creatine (r = -0.23, p = 0.02). Multivariate mixed-effect models examined neurochemical differences between the former NFL players and asymptomatic individuals without a history of head trauma. PWM N-acetyl aspartate was lower among the former NFL players (mean diff. = 1.02, p = 0.03). Between-group analyses are preliminary as groups were recruited based on symptomatic status. The ACG was the only region associated with clinical function, including positive correlations between glutamate (r = 0.32, p = 0.004), glutathione (r = 0.29, p = 0.02), and myo-inositol (r = 0.26, p = 0.01) with behavioral/mood symptoms. Other positive correlations between ACG neurochemistry and clinical function emerged (i.e., behavioral/mood symptoms, cognition), but the positive directionality was unexpected. All analyses controlled for age, body mass index, and education (for analyses examining clinical function). In this sample of symptomatic former NFL players, there was a direct effect between RHI and reduced cellular energy metabolism (i.e., lower creatine). MRS neurochemicals associated with neuroinflammation also correlated with behavioral/mood symptoms.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Biostatistics & Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
- Biostatistics & Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Departments of Neurology, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- Neurology Service, VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Departments of Neurology, and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Radiology, Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Boston, MA, USA
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- Simbex, Lebanon, NH, USA
- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 4 Blackfan Street HIM-820, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
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Mariani M, Alosco ML, Mez J, Stern RA. Clinical Presentation of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. Semin Neurol 2020; 40:370-383. [PMID: 32740900 DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1713624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head impacts (RHI), such as those received in contact/collision sports, blast injury in military veterans, and domestic violence. Currently, CTE can only be diagnosed following death. Although the clinical features of former boxers have been described for almost a century, and there is increasing evidence of long-term cognitive and neuropsychiatric impairments in living former American football players, the specific clinical presentation associated with underlying CTE neuropathology remains unclear. These features include diverse and nonspecific changes in cognition, mood, behavior, and motor functioning. Currently, there are no validated and widely accepted clinical diagnostic criteria. Proposed criteria are primarily based on retrospective telephonic interviews with the next of kin of individuals who were diagnosed with CTE postmortem. Prospective studies involving individuals presumably at high risk for CTE are underway; these will hopefully clarify the clinical features and course of CTE, allow the diagnostic criteria to be refined, and lead to the development and validation of in vivo biomarkers. This article reviews what is currently known about the clinical presentation of CTE and describes the evolution of this knowledge from early case reports of "punch drunk" boxers through larger case series of neuropathologically confirmed CTE. This article concludes with a discussion of gaps in research and future directions to address these areas.
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- Megan Mariani
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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Brett BL, Bobholz SA, España LY, Huber DL, Mayer AR, Harezlak J, Broglio SP, McAllister TW, McCrea MA, Meier TB. Cumulative Effects of Prior Concussion and Primary Sport Participation on Brain Morphometry in Collegiate Athletes: A Study From the NCAA-DoD CARE Consortium. Front Neurol 2020; 11:673. [PMID: 32849177 PMCID: PMC7399344 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.00673] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Accepted: 06/05/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Prior studies have reported long-term differences in brain structure (brain morphometry) as being associated with cumulative concussion and contact sport participation. There is emerging evidence to suggest that similar effects of prior concussion and contact sport participation on brain morphometry may be present in younger cohorts of active athletes. We investigated the relationship between prior concussion and primary sport participation with subcortical and cortical structures in active collegiate contact sport and non-contact sport athletes. Contact sport athletes (CS; N = 190) and matched non-contact sport athletes (NCS; N = 95) completed baseline clinical testing and participated in up to four serial neuroimaging sessions across a 6-months period. Subcortical and cortical structural metrics were derived using FreeSurfer. Linear mixed-effects (LME) models examined the effects of years of primary sport participation and prior concussion (0, 1+) on brain structure and baseline clinical variables. Athletes with prior concussion across both groups reported significantly more baseline concussion and psychological symptoms (all ps < 0.05). The relationship between years of primary sport participation and thalamic volume differed between CS and NCS (p = 0.015), driven by a significant inverse association between primary years of participation and thalamic volume in CS (p = 0.007). Additional analyses limited to CS alone showed that the relationship between years of primary sport participation and dorsal striatal volume was moderated by concussion history (p = 0.042). Finally, CS with prior concussion had larger hippocampal volumes than CS without prior concussion (p = 0.015). Years of contact sport exposure and prior concussion(s) are associated with differences in subcortical volumes in young-adult, active collegiate athletes, consistent with prior literature in retired, primarily symptomatic contact sport athletes. Longitudinal follow-up studies in these athletes are needed to determine clinical significance of current findings.
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- Benjamin L Brett
- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.,Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- The Mind Research Network/Lovelace Biomedical and Environmental Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States.,Neurology and Psychiatry Departments, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, United States.,Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, United States
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- School of Kinesiology and Michigan Concussion Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
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- Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University School of Medicine, Bloomington, IN, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.,Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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- Department of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States.,Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, United States
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Phelps A, Mez J, Stern RA, Alosco ML. Risk Factors for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Proposed Framework. Semin Neurol 2020; 40:439-449. [PMID: 32674182 DOI: 10.1055/s-0040-1713633] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that has been neuropathologically diagnosed in contact and collision sport athletes, military veterans, and others with a history of exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI). Identifying methods to diagnose and prevent CTE during life is a high priority. Timely diagnosis and implementation of treatment and preventative strategies for neurodegenerative diseases, including CTE, partially hinge upon early and accurate risk characterization. Here, we propose a framework of risk factors that influence the neuropathological development of CTE. We provide an up-to-date review of the literature examining cumulative exposure to RHI as the environmental trigger for CTE. Because not all individuals exposed to RHI develop CTE, the direct and/or indirect influence of nonhead trauma exposure characteristics (e.g., age, sex, race, genetics) on the pathological development of CTE is reviewed. We conclude with recommendations for future directions, as well as opinions for preventative strategies that could mitigate risk.
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- Alyssa Phelps
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.,Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Centers, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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Chen W, Post A, Karton C, Gilchrist MD, Robidoux M, Hoshizaki TB. A comparison of frequency and magnitude of head impacts between Pee Wee And Bantam youth ice hockey. Sports Biomech 2020; 22:728-751. [PMID: 32538288 DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2020.1754450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The purpose of this research was to compare the frequency and magnitude of head impact events between Pee Wee and Bantam ice hockey players. Videos of Pee Wee and Bantam boys' ice hockey were analysed to determine the frequency and type of head impact events. The head impact events were then reconstructed in the laboratory using physical and finite element models to determine the magnitude of strain in the brain tissues. The results showed that Pee Wee boys experienced more head impacts from elbows and boards, while Bantam players had more head impacts to the glass. Pee Wee and Bantam players experienced similar frequency and magnitudes of very low, low, and medium and above (med+) levels of strain to the brain. This research suggests to ice hockey leagues and coaches that to reduce the incidence of these levels of brain trauma, consideration must be given to either reducing the level of contact along the boards or the removal of body checking. In addition, companies who innovate in ice hockey should develop protective devices and equipment strategies that aim to reduce the risk of head injury from shoulder and glass impacts for Bantam players.
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- Wesley Chen
- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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- Human Kinetics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
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Angoa-Pérez M, Zagorac B, Anneken JH, Briggs DI, Winters AD, Greenberg JM, Ahmad M, Theis KR, Kuhn DM. Repetitive, mild traumatic brain injury results in a progressive white matter pathology, cognitive deterioration, and a transient gut microbiota dysbiosis. Sci Rep 2020; 10:8949. [PMID: 32488168 PMCID: PMC7265445 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-65972-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Accepted: 05/09/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is often accompanied by gastrointestinal and metabolic disruptions. These systemic manifestations suggest possible involvement of the gut microbiota in head injury outcomes. Although gut dysbiosis after single, severe TBI has been documented, the majority of head injuries are mild, such as those that occur in athletes and military personnel exposed to repetitive head impacts. Therefore, it is important to determine if repetitive, mild TBI (rmTBI) will also disrupt the gut microbiota. Male mice were exposed to mild head impacts daily for 20 days and assessed for cognitive behavior, neuropathology and disruptions in the gut microbiota at 0, 45 or 90 days after injury. Deficits in recognition memory were evident at the late post-injury points. Brains show an early increase in microglial activation at the 0-day time point that persisted until 90 days post-injury. This was compounded by substantial increases in astrocyte reactivity and phosphorylated tau at the 90-day time point. In contrast, changes in the microbial community were minor and transient, and very few differences were observed in mice exposed to rmTBI compared to controls. While the progressive emergence of white matter damage and cognitive alterations after rmTBI resembles the alterations observed in athletes and military personnel exposed to rmTBI, these changes could not be linked to systematic modifications in the gut microbiota.
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- Mariana Angoa-Pérez
- Research and Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA. .,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.
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- Research and Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Research and Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Research and Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.,Stanford Behavioral and Functional Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA.,Perinatal Research Initiative in Maternal, Perinatal and Child Health, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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- Research and Development Service, John D. Dingell VA Medical Center, Detroit, MI, USA.,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
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Lust CAC, Mountjoy M, Robinson LE, Oliver JM, Ma DWL. Sports-related concussions and subconcussive impacts in athletes: incidence, diagnosis, and the emerging role of EPA and DHA. Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 2020; 45:886-892. [PMID: 32119565 DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2019-0555] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Sports-related concussions (SRC) are traumatic brain injuries induced as the result of a biomechanical force to the body that temporarily impair neurological functions. Not all traumatic impacts reach the threshold necessary to produce concussive symptoms; however, the culmination of these events is known as a subconcussive impact (SCI). Athletes who have been diagnosed with a SRC or those who accumulate multiple SCI have exhibited structural damage to the brain, impairments to learning and memory, and an increase in depressive symptoms. This area is rapidly evolving, and current clinical definitions of injury, diagnosis, and treatment of SRC and SCI are reviewed. In tandem, there is also growing research examining the role of nutrition in brain injuries, focusing primarily on n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA). The potential role of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in reducing inflammation and promoting recovery following brain injury are also reviewed. Overall, advancements in the evaluation of SRC and SCI coupled with n-3 PUFA supplementation show promise in the management of brain injuries, leading to better long-term health outcomes for athletes. Novelty SRC have garnered widespread attention due to the growing body of reported prevalence in youth and professional sports. Current definitions and protocol(s) for diagnosing SRC and SCI have improved, but still require further evaluation. n-3, EPA and DHA, reduce inflammation and promote recovery following brain injuries in experimental models.
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- Cody A C Lust
- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Athletics, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY 10996, USA
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- Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada
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Schaffert J, LoBue C, Fields L, Wilmoth K, Didehbani N, Hart J, Cullum CM. Neuropsychological functioning in ageing retired NFL players: a critical review. Int Rev Psychiatry 2020; 32:71-88. [PMID: 31592681 DOI: 10.1080/09540261.2019.1658572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Recent discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in former National Football League (NFL) players has led to a surge of papers investigating cognitive functioning in these former athletes. This critical review of the literature focused on the neuropsychological functioning in these ageing athletes, and included 22 articles published between 2013 and 2019, of which 13 reported on neuroradiological imaging and four focused on dose-response relationships of repetitive head injury on cognitive outcomes. Four studies suggest higher prevalence of MCI and neurodegenerative disease among NFL retirees, although a quantifiable risk and prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in these players remains unknown. Decreased verbal memory has been found in some players across multiple studies, though with unknown clinical significance due to small sample sizes, unreported effect sizes, and absence of longitudinal data. Studies investigating a dose-response relationship between cognitive decline and head injury have generated mixed findings utilizing various measures of head injury exposure. Neuroradiological findings are inconsistent, but suggest that some NFL players may be at greater risk for reduced white matter integrity. Future research is needed to understand the relationship between sports-related concussions and the risk of long-term cognitive decline and neurodegenerative disease in ageing NFL players.
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- Jeff Schaffert
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry and Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa, WI, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Callier Center, School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA.,Departments of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics and Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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- Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, and Neurological Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
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Manor B, Zhou J, Lo O, Zhu H, Gouskova NA, Yu W, Zafonte R, Lipsitz LA, Travison TG, Pascual‐Leone A. Self-Reported Head Trauma Predicts Poor Dual Task Gait in Retired National Football League Players. Ann Neurol 2020; 87:75-83. [PMID: 31693765 PMCID: PMC6973030 DOI: 10.1002/ana.25638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2019] [Revised: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 11/03/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Symptomatic head trauma associated with American-style football (ASF) has been linked to brain pathology, along with physical and mental distress in later life. However, the longer-term effects of such trauma on objective metrics of cognitive-motor function remain poorly understood. We hypothesized that ASF-related symptomatic head trauma would predict worse gait performance, particularly during dual task conditions (ie, walking while performing an additional cognitive task), in later life. METHODS Sixty-six retired professional ASF players aged 29 to 75 years completed a health and wellness questionnaire. They also completed a validated smartphone-based assessment in their own homes, during which gait was monitored while they walked normally and while they performed a verbalized serial-subtraction cognitive task. RESULTS Participants who reported more symptomatic head trauma, defined as the total number of impacts to the head or neck followed by concussion-related symptoms, exhibited greater dual task cost (ie, percentage increase) to stride time variability (ie, the coefficient of variation of mean stride time). Those who reported ≥1 hit followed by loss of consciousness, compared to those who did not, also exhibited greater dual task costs to this metric. Relationships between reported trauma and dual task costs were independent of age, body mass index, National Football League career duration, and history of musculoskeletal surgery. Symptomatic head trauma was not correlated with average stride times in either walking condition. INTERPRETATION Remote, smartphone-based assessments of dual task walking may be utilized to capture meaningful data sensitive to the long-term impact of symptomatic head trauma in former professional ASF players and other contact sport athletes. ANN NEUROL 2020;87:75-83.
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- Brad Manor
- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
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- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Department of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationBrigham and Women's HospitalBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Division of Gerontology, Department of MedicineBeth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
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- Hinda and Arthur Marcus Institute for Aging Research, Hebrew SeniorLifeBostonMA
- Harvard Medical SchoolBostonMA
- Guttmann Neurorehabilitation InstituteAutonomous University of BarcelonaBadalonaSpain
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Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Koerte IK, Jackson JD, Chua AS, Mariani M, Haller O, Foley ÉM, Martin BM, Palmisano J, Singh B, Green K, Lepage C, Muehlmann M, Makris N, Cantu RC, Lin AP, Coleman M, Pasternak O, Mez J, Bouix S, Shenton ME, Stern RA. Interactive Effects of Racial Identity and Repetitive Head Impacts on Cognitive Function, Structural MRI-Derived Volumetric Measures, and Cerebrospinal Fluid Tau and Aβ. Front Hum Neurosci 2019; 13:440. [PMID: 31920598 PMCID: PMC6933867 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 12/02/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Factors of increased prevalence among individuals with Black racial identity (e.g., cardiovascular disease, CVD) may influence the association between exposure to repetitive head impacts (RHI) from American football and later-life neurological outcomes. Here, we tested the interaction between racial identity and RHI on neurobehavioral outcomes, brain volumetric measures, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau (p-tau181), and Aβ1 - 42 in symptomatic former National Football League (NFL) players. METHODS 68 symptomatic male former NFL players (ages 40-69; n = 27 Black, n = 41 White) underwent neuropsychological testing, structural MRI, and lumbar puncture. FreeSurfer derived estimated intracranial volume (eICV), gray matter volume (GMV), white matter volume (WMV), subcortical GMV, hippocampal volume, and white matter (WM) hypointensities. Multivariate generalized linear models examined the main effects of racial identity and its interaction with a cumulative head impact index (CHII) on all outcomes. Age, years of education, Wide Range Achievement Test, Fourth Edition (WRAT-4) scores, CVD risk factors, and APOEε4 were included as covariates; eICV was included for MRI models. P-values were false discovery rate adjusted. RESULTS Compared to White former NFL players, Black participants were 4 years younger (p = 0.04), had lower WRAT-4 scores (mean difference = 8.03, p = 0.002), and a higher BMI (mean difference = 3.09, p = 0.01) and systolic blood pressure (mean difference = 8.15, p = 0.03). With regards to group differences on the basis of racial identity, compared to White former NFL players, Black participants had lower GMV (mean adjusted difference = 45649.00, p = 0.001), lower right hippocampal volume (mean adjusted difference = 271.96, p = 0.02), and higher p-tau181/t-tau ratio (mean adjusted difference = -0.25, p = 0.01). There was not a statistically significant association between the CHII with GMV, right hippocampal volume, or p-tau181/t-tau ratio. However, there was a statistically significant Race x CHII interaction for GMV (b = 2206.29, p = 0.001), right hippocampal volume (b = 12.07, p = 0.04), and p-tau181/t-tau ratio concentrations (b = -0.01, p = 0.004). CONCLUSION Continued research on racial neurological disparities could provide insight into risk factors for long-term neurological disorders associated with American football play.
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- Michael L. Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- cBRAIN, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich, Germany
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- CARE Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
- Center for Neural Systems Investigations, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, United States
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- Department of Radiology, Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
- VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Brockton, MA, United States
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States
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Alosco ML, Stein TD, Tripodis Y, Chua AS, Kowall NW, Huber BR, Goldstein LE, Cantu RC, Katz DI, Palmisano JN, Martin B, Cherry JD, Mahar I, Killiany RJ, McClean MD, Au R, Alvarez V, Stern RA, Mez J, McKee AC. Association of White Matter Rarefaction, Arteriolosclerosis, and Tau With Dementia in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. JAMA Neurol 2019; 76:1298-1308. [PMID: 31380975 PMCID: PMC6686769 DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2019.2244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2018] [Accepted: 03/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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IMPORTANCE Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with repetitive head impacts, including those from US football, that presents with cognitive and neuropsychiatric disturbances that can progress to dementia. Pathways to dementia in CTE are unclear and likely involve tau and nontau pathologic conditions. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association of white matter rarefaction and cerebrovascular disease with dementia in deceased men older than 40 years who played football and had CTE. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study involves analyses of data from the ongoing Understanding Neurologic Injury and Traumatic Encephalopathy (UNITE) Study, which is conducted via and included brain donors from the Veterans Affairs-Boston University-Concussion Legacy Foundation brain bank between 2008 and 2017. An original sample of 224 men who had played football and were neuropathologically diagnosed with CTE was reduced after exclusion of those younger than 40 years and those missing data. EXPOSURES The number of years of football play as a proxy for repetitive head impacts. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Neuropathological assessment of white matter rarefaction and arteriolosclerosis severity (on a scale of 0-3, where 3 is severe); number of infarcts, microinfarcts, and microbleeds; and phosphorylated tau accumulation determined by CTE stage and semiquantitative rating of dorsolateral frontal cortex (DLFC) neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) (none or mild vs moderate or severe). Informant-based retrospective clinical interviews determined dementia diagnoses via diagnostic consensus conferences. RESULTS A total of 180 men were included. The mean (SD) age of the sample at death was 67.9 (12.7) years. Of 180, 120 [66.7%]) were found to have had dementia prior to death. Moderate to severe white matter rarefaction (84 of 180 [46.6%]) and arteriolosclerosis (85 of 180 [47.2%]) were common; infarcts, microinfarcts, and microbleeds were not. A simultaneous equations regression model controlling for age and race showed that more years of play was associated with more severe white matter rarefaction (β, 0.16 [95% CI, 0.02-0.29]; P = .03) and greater phosphorylated tau accumulation (DLFC NFTs: β, 0.15 [95% CI, 0.004-0.30]; P = .04; CTE stage: β, 0.27 [95% CI, 0.14-0.41]; P < .001). White matter rarefaction (β, 0.16 [95% CI, 0.02-0.29]; P = .03) and DLFC NFTs (β, 0.16 [95% CI, 0.03-0.28]; P = .01) were associated with dementia. Arteriolosclerosis and years of play were not associated, but arteriolosclerosis was independently associated with dementia (β, 0.21 [95% CI, 0.07-0.35]; P = .003). CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Among older men who had played football and had CTE, more years of football play were associated with more severe white matter rarefaction and greater DLFC NFT burden. White matter rarefaction, arteriolosclerosis, and DLFC NFTs were independently associated with dementia. Dementia in CTE is likely a result of neuropathologic changes, including white matter rarefaction and phosphorylated tau, associated with repetitive head impact and pathologic changes not associated with head trauma, such as arteriolosclerosis.
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- Michael L. Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
- National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, VA Boston Healthcare, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Psychiatry, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital, Braintree, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Biostatistics and Epidemiology Data Analytics Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Center for Biomedical Imaging, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center and CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts
- Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, Massachusetts
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Lo GH, McAlindon TE, Kriska AM, Price LL, Rockette-Wagner BJ, Mandl LA, Eaton CB, Hochberg MC, Jackson RD, Kwoh CK, Nevitt MC, Driban JB. Football Increases Future Risk of Symptomatic Radiographic Knee Osteoarthritis. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2019; 52:795-800. [PMID: 31652246 DOI: 10.1249/mss.0000000000002189] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Male youth in the United States commonly participate in gridiron (American) football. There are little data substantiating current popular opinion that it is associated with knee pain or osteoarthritis (OA) later in life. We aimed to evaluate the relationship of football with these outcomes in the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). METHODS This is a study of male OAI participants with knee x-ray readings, symptom assessments, and completed surveys on lifetime physical activity. The OAI is a multicenter, observational cohort recruited from the community not based on football participation status. A history of exposure to American football was ascertained via self-report. Knee radiographs were scored for Kellgren-Lawrence grade (0-4). Radiographic OA (ROA) was defined as Kellgren-Lawrence ≥ 2 in at least one knee. Frequent knee pain meant at least one knee with frequent knee pain. Symptomatic ROA required at least one knee with both ROA and frequent knee pain. RESULTS A total of 1166 men had a mean age of 63.7 (SD, 9.2) yr and body mass index of 28.6 (SD, 4.2) kg·m. Thirty-one percent (365/1166) played football at some point in their lives, 95% of whom participated from ages 12 to 18 yr. The ORs for symptomatic ROA from the lowest to highest football participation were 1.2, 1.5, and 2.2, respectively (P for trend = 0.004). Findings were similar for football from ages 12 to 18 yr and for outcomes of knee pain and ROA. CONCLUSION This is the first large epidemiologic study to suggest that football participation, including in the teen years, may be detrimental toward knee health. Prospective studies evaluating football players are warranted.
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
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- Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH
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- University of Arizona Arthritis Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
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Alosco ML, Stern RA. Youth Exposure to Repetitive Head Impacts From Tackle Football and Long-term Neurologic Outcomes: A Review of the Literature, Knowledge Gaps and Future Directions, and Societal and Clinical Implications. Semin Pediatr Neurol 2019; 30:107-116. [PMID: 31235012 DOI: 10.1016/j.spen.2019.03.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Youth participation in contact and collision sports, particularly tackle football, is associated with exposure to repetitive head impacts during a time period when tremendous brain maturation is occurring. Accumulating evidence suggests that exposure to repetitive head impacts from youth tackle football may increase vulnerability to long-term cognitive, neuropsychiatric, and neurologic disturbances. There are limitations to the current literature and conflicting findings exist. Nonetheless, participation in youth football has become a cause of concern to clinicians, scientists, politicians, coaches, parents, and children. The objective of this paper is to review the literature on the long-term cognitive, neuropsychiatric, and neurologic outcomes associated with participation in youth contact and collision sports, with a focus on tackle football. We provide an overview of the empirically derived framework that has served as the foundation for the investigation of youth tackle football and neurologic outcomes. The extant research studies on age of first exposure to tackle football and later-life cognitive and neuropsychiatric functioning, as well as structural brain changes are reviewed. We discuss the limitations of the current evidence, suggest future directions, and conclude with our opinions on societal and clinical implications.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University (BU), Alzheimer's Disease Center, BU CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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- Boston University (BU), Alzheimer's Disease Center, BU CTE Center, Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Departments of Neurosurgery and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA.
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Mild traumatic brain injury: The effect of age at trauma onset on brain structure integrity. NEUROIMAGE-CLINICAL 2019; 23:101907. [PMID: 31233955 PMCID: PMC6595074 DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2019.101907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Revised: 06/16/2019] [Accepted: 06/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Mounting evidence suggests that mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) have long-term effects that interact with the aging process to precipitate cognitive decline. This line of research predicts that early exposure to brain trauma is particularly detrimental to long-term brain integrity. However, a second line of research into the effects of age at trauma onset predict that older brains are more vulnerable to the effects of mTBI than younger brains. We sought to determine whether patients who sustain a mTBI earlier in life fare better than patients who sustain a mTBI at an older age. We conducted a multi-cohort, case-control study, with participants randomly sampled from a population of patients with a history of mTBI. We recruited two cohorts of aging participants (N = 74, mean [SD] = 61.16 [6.41]) matched in age and education levels that differed in only one respect: age at mTBI onset. One cohort sustained their concussion in their early twenties (24.60 [6.34] y/o), the other in their early sixties (61.05 [4.90] y/o). Each mTBI cohort had its own matched control group. Participants underwent high-resolution MRI at 3 Tesla for T1 and diffusion-weighted images (DWI) acquisition. Images were processed and analyzed using Deformation-Based Morphometry and DWI Tract-Based Spatial Statistics to identify group differences in a 2 × 2 ANOVA design. Results showed a significant interaction on DWI measures of white matter integrity indicating larger anomalies in participants who sustained a mTBI at a younger age (F1,70, P < .05, FDR corrected). These findings suggest that mTBI initiates a lifelong neurodegeneration process that outweighs the risks associated with sustaining a mTBI at an older age. Implications are important for young athletes' populations exposed to the risk of mTBI in the practice of their sports and for retired athletes aging with a history of concussions sustained at a younger age. In aging adults, early-life mTBI leads to worst brain outcome than late-life mTBI. Brain anomalies are mostly visible using DWI measures of white matter integrity. Brain anomalies are visible even in neurologically normal individuals.
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Lepage C, Muehlmann M, Tripodis Y, Hufschmidt J, Stamm J, Green K, Wrobel P, Schultz V, Weir I, Alosco ML, Baugh CM, Fritts NG, Martin BM, Chaisson C, Coleman MJ, Lin AP, Pasternak O, Makris N, Stern RA, Shenton ME, Koerte IK. Limbic system structure volumes and associated neurocognitive functioning in former NFL players. Brain Imaging Behav 2019; 13:725-734. [PMID: 29779184 PMCID: PMC6854905 DOI: 10.1007/s11682-018-9895-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease associated with exposure to repetitive head impacts. CTE has been linked to disruptions in cognition, mood, and behavior. Unfortunately, the diagnosis of CTE can only be made post-mortem. Neuropathological evidence suggests limbic structures may provide an opportunity to characterize CTE in the living. Using 3 T magnetic resonance imaging, we compared select limbic brain regional volumes - the amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus - between symptomatic former National Football League (NFL) players (n = 86) and controls (n = 22). Moreover, within the group of former NFL players, we examined the relationship between those limbic structures and neurobehavioral functioning (n = 75). The former NFL group comprised eighty-six men (mean age = 55.2 ± 8.0 years) with at least 12 years of organized football experience, at least 2 years of active participation in the NFL, and self-reported declines in cognition, mood, and behavior within the last 6 months. The control group consisted of men (mean age = 57.0 ± 6.6 years) with no history of contact-sport involvement or traumatic brain injury. All control participants provided neurobehavioral data. Compared to controls, former NFL players exhibited reduced volumes of the amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus. Within the NFL group, reduced bilateral cingulate gyrus volume was associated with worse attention and psychomotor speed (r = 0.4 (right), r = 0.42 (left); both p < 0.001), while decreased right hippocampal volume was associated with worse visual memory (r = 0.25, p = 0.027). Reduced volumes of limbic system structures in former NFL players are associated with neurocognitive features of CTE. Volume reductions in the amygdala, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus may be potential biomarkers of neurodegeneration in those at risk for CTE.
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- Christian Lepage
- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Clinical Spectroscopy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Morphometric Analysis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Center for Neural Systems Investigations, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- BU Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA
- Departments of Neurosurgery, and Anatomy & Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- VA Boston Healthcare System, Brockton Division, Brockton, MA, USA
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- Psychiatry Neuroimaging Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
- Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatic, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.
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Alosco ML, Tripodis Y, Fritts NG, Heslegrave A, Baugh CM, Conneely S, Mariani M, Martin BM, Frank S, Mez J, Stein TD, Cantu RC, McKee AC, Shaw LM, Trojanowski JQ, Blennow K, Zetterberg H, Stern RA. Cerebrospinal fluid tau, Aβ, and sTREM2 in Former National Football League Players: Modeling the relationship between repetitive head impacts, microglial activation, and neurodegeneration. Alzheimers Dement 2018; 14:1159-1170. [PMID: 30049650 PMCID: PMC6131058 DOI: 10.1016/j.jalz.2018.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Revised: 03/20/2018] [Accepted: 05/15/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) protein analysis may facilitate detection and elucidate mechanisms of neurological consequences from repetitive head impacts (RHI), such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. We examined CSF concentrations of total tau (t-tau), phosphorylated tau, and amyloid β1-42 and their association with RHI in former National Football League (NFL) players. The role of microglial activation (using sTREM2) was examined as a pathogenic mechanism of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. METHODS Sixty-eight former NFL players and 21 controls underwent lumbar puncture to quantify t-tau, p-tau181, amyloid β1-42, and sTREM2 in the CSF using immunoassays. The cumulative head impact index estimated RHI. RESULTS No between-group differences for CSF analytes emerged. In the former NFL players, the cumulative head impact index predicted higher t-tau concentrations (P = .041), and higher sTREM2 levels were associated with higher t-tau concentrations (P = .009). DISCUSSION In this sample of former NFL players, greater RHI and increased microglial activation were associated with higher CSF t-tau concentrations.
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- Michael L Alosco
- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK
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- Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Data Coordinating Center, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Concussion Legacy Foundation, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA, USA
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Departments of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; VA Boston Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA; Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Bedford, MA, USA
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, UK; UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK; Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden; Department of Psychiatry and Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
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- Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center and Boston University CTE Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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Tharmaratnam T, Iskandar MA, Tabobondung TC, Tobbia I, Gopee-Ramanan P, Tabobondung TA. Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy in Professional American Football Players: Where Are We Now? Front Neurol 2018; 9:445. [PMID: 29971037 PMCID: PMC6018081 DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2018.00445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Repetitive head trauma provides a favorable milieu for the onset of inflammatory and neurodegenerative processes. The result of long-lasting head trauma is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disease process well-recognized in boxers, military personnel, and more recently, in American football players. CTE is a chronic neurodegenerative disease with hallmarks of hyperphosphorylated tau (p-tau) aggregates and intercellular lesions of neurofibrillary tangles. The criteria for CTE diagnosis requires at least 1-2 focal perivascular lesions of p-tau in the cerebral cortex, at the depth of the sulci. These pathognomonic lesions aggregate within neurons and glial cells such as astrocytes, and cell processes within the vicinity of small blood vessels. CTE presents in a distinct topographical distribution pattern compared to other tauopathies such as AD and other age-related astrogliopathies. CTE also has an insidious onset, years after repetitive head trauma. The disease course of CTE is characterized by cognitive dysfunction, behavioral changes, and can progress to altered motor function with parkinsonian-like manifestations in later stages. This short review aims to summarize CTE in professional football, epidemiology, diagnosis based on neuroanatomical abnormalities, cognitive degeneration, and adverse mental health effects, as well as gaps in the literature and future directions in diagnostics, therapeutics, and preventive measures.
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- Tharmegan Tharmaratnam
- School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
- School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Bahrain, Al Muharraq, Bahrain
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- School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
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- Department of Family Medicine, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Brantford General Hospital, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Pathology and Clinical Microbiology, School of Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland-Bahrain, Adliya, Bahrain
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- Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Department of Radiology, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
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- Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Rowson B, Tyson A, Rowson S, Duma S. Measuring head impacts: accelerometers and other sensors. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2018; 158:235-243. [PMID: 30482351 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-63954-7.00023-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Understanding the biomechanics of head injuries is essential for the development of preventive strategies and protective equipment design. However, there are many challenges associated with determining the forces that cause injury. Acceleration of the skull is often measured because it is relatively easy to quantify and relates to severity of impact, but it is difficult to relate those measurements to the type and extent of injury that occurs. Experimental work in the laboratory has used either human cadavers or volunteers. Cadavers can be instrumented with high-grade sensors that are tightly coupled to the skull for accurate measurements, but they cannot exhibit a functional response to determine a threshold for brain injury. Volunteers can also be instrumented with high-grade sensors in controlled laboratory experiments, but any head accelerations they experience must be well below an injurious level. Athletes participating in contact sports present a unique opportunity to collect biomechanical data from populations that have increased exposure to head impacts and a higher risk of head injury than the general population. Recent advances in sensor technology have allowed for more accurate measurements from instrumented athletes during play, but it is challenging to tightly couple the instrumentation to the skull to provide meaningful measurements. Because of the challenges associated with on-field measurements, it is important to consider the type of sensor used and its accuracy in the field when evaluating head impact data from athletes.
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- Bethany Rowson
- Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
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- Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States.
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