Traumatic Encephalopathy Syndrome Criteria Poor for Predicting CTE

Summary: Doctors have a hard time diagnosing a brain disease called CTE in living people. They use a checklist of symptoms called TES to try and guess if someone has CTE. But a new study shows this checklist doesn't work well. Researchers looked at over 1,000 brain records. Out of 25 people who had the TES symptoms, only 6 actually had CTE when their brains were examined after death. The study found that knowing if someone took a lot of hits to the head was a better clue than their actual symptoms. Doctors say they need to study athletes while they are alive and track their head injuries before they can accurately diagnose CTE in living patients.

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