Cognitive, biomarker, and neuroimaging indices associated with traumatic encephalopathy syndrome across two independent athlete cohorts
Brooke D Conway Kleven, Lung-Chang Chien, Dana Surwill, Michael L Alosco, Jennifer V Wethe, Yorghos Tripodis, Charles H Adler, Martha E Shenton, Ofer Pasternak, Douglas I Katz, Elaine Peskind, Laura J Balcer, Inga K Koerte, Jesse Mez, Eric M Reiman, Robert C Cantu, Robert A Stern, Henrik Zetterberg, Charles Bernick, Jeffrey L Cummings · 2026
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Brooke D Conway Kleven leads a large team testing, in a 2026 study, whether thinking scores, blood markers, and brain scans together identify traumatic encephalopathy syndrome in athletes. The syndrome flags people at risk of CTE, the brain disease tied to repeated head impacts, but diagnosis still rests on symptoms alone. The team studied 158 professional fighters and 149 former football players from two long-running projects.
They built three combined scores, one each for cognition, blood markers of brain injury, and scan measures of brain structure. Models using all three beat any single score at sorting who met the syndrome criteria in both groups. Scans added most for fighters, while blood markers spoke loudest for football players. The authors say the syndrome carries a shared biological fingerprint across sports, a step toward tests that rest on more than symptoms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Brooke D Conway Kleven, Lung-Chang Chien, Dana Surwill, Michael L Alosco, Jennifer V Wethe, Yorghos Tripodis, Charles H Adler, Martha E Shenton, Ofer Pasternak, Douglas I Katz, Elaine Peskind, Laura J Balcer, Inga K Koerte, Jesse Mez, Eric M Reiman, Robert C Cantu, Robert A Stern, Henrik Zetterberg, Charles Bernick, Jeffrey L Cummings |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55776 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |