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Seeking tests for a contested brain disease.
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- Author(s): Underwood, Emily
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Science. 4/24/2015, Vol. 348 Issue 6233, p378-379. 2p.
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The article focuses on efforts to diagnose the neurodegenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It mentions lawsuits by former professional football players against the National Football League, noting that several players had their brains scanned at the University of California, Los Angeles using the patented radioactive compound FDDNP which binds to abnormal tau and amyloid protein deposits to make them visible under emission tomography.
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