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Psychiatric phenotypes in chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews - 1 Dec 2017
Mahar Ian, Alosco Michael L, McKee Ann C
Abstract excerpt
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disorder involving cognitive, motor, and psychiatrically-relevant symptoms resulting from repetitive head impacts. Psychiatric phenotypes of CTE, including depression and suicidality, present particular challenges for CTE research, given that the diagnosis requires postmortem neuropathological examination. The pathognomonic lesion of CTE is the...
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