PET Scanning of Brain Tau in Retired National Football League Players: Preliminary Findings
PET Scanning of Brain Tau in Retired National Football League Players: Preliminary Findings
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England: Elsevier Inc
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English
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England: Elsevier Inc
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Objective Mild traumatic brain injury due to contact sports may cause chronic behavioral, mood, and cognitive disturbances associated with pathological deposition of tau protein found at brain autopsy. To explore whether brain tau deposits can be detected in living retired players, we used positron emission tomography (PET) scans after intravenous...
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PET Scanning of Brain Tau in Retired National Football League Players: Preliminary Findings
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1282045053
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1282045053
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1064-7481
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1545-7214
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10.1016/j.jagp.2012.11.019
