Public Release: 9-May-2016
[h=1]USF professor studying similarities in Alzheimer's and CTE from head injuries[/h] Researcher says football players' brain injuries leading to chronic traumatic encephalopathy may start with a 'planted seed,' then spread
University of South Florida (USF Innovation)
TAMPA, Fla. (May 9, 2016) - A University of South Florida professor is joining a growing number of researchers studying chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a recently discovered brain disease in athletes who have suffered repeated brain trauma from on-field collisions.
Dr. Martin Muschol, an associate professor of physics at USF who studies Alzheimer's disease, is investigating the possibility that CTE can start when an on-field collision can generate a "seed" that subsequently induces a systemic spreading of protein abnormality in the brain.
While research on CTE is in the early stages, because of its symptoms many researchers are comparing CTE to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases...
