Research Discovery: CTE has been found at a significant rate among homeless/unhoused people with no history of sports injury or military service.
Diseases Affected: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)
Key Findings: Researchers detected signs of CTE the post-mortem brains of housing-deprived individuals.
What's next? The international research team says that the next step is to develop better tools to detect CTE among living patients, which is currently not possible even with MRI scans.
A study in the journal Acta Neuropathologica has found that chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), an illness related to repeated head injuries, can be found at a significant rate among homeless/unhoused populations. #CTE #CTEAwareness #CTEResearch
