Dr. Ann McKee on the Largest Ever CTE Study

Dr. Ann McKee, Director of the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank, is the corresponding author of the largest CTE study ever! Dr. McKee presented the study's key findings in a CLF webinar.

CLF co-founder and CEO Chris Nowinski, Ph.D. hosted and discussed with Dr. McKee how the study provides insights into where CTE begins and how it progresses, as well as how it confirms the McKee staging criteria for CTE.

Watch the recording to learn why Dr. McKee says these findings will "lay the groundwork for diagnosis during life."

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[dougwedel]

This flips a lot of ideas I had about brain injury. CTE happens over time. People get injured and then get worse over years. It's not that we have a noticeable brain injury then either stay the same, or slowly recover.

[ObserverAB]

Great information. Dr McKee is brilliant.

[BTBC]

I was just at BU for 2 days...I was told every time I had my 'bell rung' that's a concussion. So we calculated I've had over 1, 500 concussions... sounds crazy right? But I was at the best place in the country doing testing. I also donated my brain..

[sistergrace]

Please help me believe I have CTE from 12 years of abuse my ex husband used to break walls with my head for a decade . Daily beatings .
Forget where I am people’s names words my personality has changed greatly . Last time I drove I got a mile down the road and had to turn around had no clue where I was too confused to continue, had to call my son and get myself together before I could drive back. Many more symptoms I don’t want to write a novel . Please help me

[papayasalad]

Damn seeing that football player on the ground got me in tears

[brianchristenson]

Lots of abuse as a child. Lots of behavioral issues and many many fist fights. Knocked out about 12 times and couldn’t count the concussions beginning at a young age by my Father. I have all of the symptoms mentioned for CTE. After a suicide attempt in 2019 I was diagnosed bi-polar(blanket diagnosis)and given lithium. Made me sleep 24/7 with 0 motivation. I don’t want to die! I don’t want to be a zombie on lithium! And I don’t want the erratic behavior and outbursts! I want a normal life that I can get along with people. I have no friends nor family and I travel town to town fitting in until the outbursts begin then I move on. I don’t get close to anyone because I know they will judge me and eventually hate me. I am so sad and lonely and need help sooner than later. I feel hopeless.

[alcoholfree]

Great video. Football, especially the NFL causes CTE. CTE is incurable, incredibly common, and cannot be prevented. It comes from multiple episodes of acceleration/deceleration; this is even seen in youth tackle football players. There is no doubt that NFL FOOTBALL SHOULD BE BANNED! In my opinion all tackle football should be stopped forever!

[michellestarling]

I'm 45 and had brain surgery at age 10 that caused TBI and now live with CTE. My neurologist has no idea how to treat me. I have neurofibromitosis type 2, which is the cause of the tumors. I also lived a long time from childhood into almost age 30 in abuse. Can you help me? University of Florida neurologist for patients with NF and CTE are zero help for adults.

[jasongreen]

What did doctor omalu the guy who found this in Mike Webster discover? They made it seem like he discovered cte but from what I've seen it's been known since the 1920's? I watched the movie concussion and when he was telling the doctors what he found they told him he has to give it a name. That's when he named it cte, so did he just name this disease which has been around for yrs cte? What was it called before this?

[dougwedel]

Are there ways to definitively detect CTE without examining a brain after death? Are there ways to directly examine the living brain? Are there ways to detect CTE by examining people's behaviour and aptitudes?

[graceobrien]

POV: Your researching for a school Scientific Report

[michaeltiller]

How can 24 yeae old have stage three i had small amouts of memory loss at 14 to 18 then i ended up in 2011 with daily memory loss and days of confusion and warding all sober since the end of 11 never lost weare i was or nothing or doing however did 13 times brought back to life 150 concssionas my reascher i know who it starts and were drugd plays zero role but makes ot worse but cte cause substance use

[petermpeters]

didn't know i was knocked out, didn't know i sustained brain damage. empirical evidence pointed at it. scared to hear it from the doctor. loving family members around me knew what do, high tech solution that can be applied across internet. technologies beyond my imagination. can't listen, sounds horrible. keep up the good work, i would employ neural nets - Kurzweil.