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"Chronic traumatic encephalopathy" (CTE) is described as a slowly progressive neurodegenerative disease believed to result from multiple concussions. Traditionally, concussions were considered benign events and although most people recover fully, about 10% develop a post-concussive syndrome with persisting neurological, cognitive and neuropsychiatric symptoms. CTE was once thought to be unique to boxers, but it has now been observed in many different athletes having suffered multiple concussions as well as in military personal after repeated blast injuries. Much remains unknown about the development of CTE but its pathological substrate is usually tau, similar to that seen in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). The aim of this "perspective" is to compare and contrast clinical and pathological CTE with the other neurodegenerative proteinopathies and highlight that there is an urgent need for understanding the relationship between concussion and the development of CTE as it may provide a window into the development of a proteinopathy and thus new avenues for treatment.

Altres ajuts: This work was in part supported by the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (E.R., M.Z.), the ALS Canada-Brain Canada Hudson Grant (J.R., E.R., L.Z.), James Hunter ALS Initiative and the Temerty Family Foundation (L.Z., J.R.), Alzheimer's Society grant #284 (R.F.), Argentine National Research Council (CONICET) (EIS), ALS Canada Clinical Research Fellowship (R.S.), National Institutes of Health (NIH) R35 NS097261, P50 AG016574, P01 NS084974 (RR), P50 AG016574 (N.R.G., D.W.D., J.E.P., B.F.B., R.C.P.), NIH P01 NS084974 (D.W.D.), NIH P01 AG019724 (B.L.M., W.W.S.), JPND PreFrontALS (733051042), JPND RiMOD (733051024), Memorabel-FTD (733050103) (J.C.v-S), the Flemish Government initiated Impulse Program on Networks for Dementia Research (VIND), the Methusalem Excellence Program, the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the University of Antwerp Research Fund (C.V.B., J.v-d-Z.), NIH P01-AG-017586 (V.V.D.), "Investissements d'avenir" ANR-10-IAIHU-06, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (Clinical Research and Development Department), Programme Hospitalier de Recherche Clinique, FTLD-exome RCAOM-12123, the ANR-PRTS PREV-DEMALS project (I.L.B.), an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship (MR/M008525/1), the NIHR Rare Disease Translational Research Collaboration (BRC149/NS/MH), the MRC UK GENFI grant (MR/M023664/1) (J.D.R.), Swedish Research Council (Dnr 521-2010-3134, 529-2014-7504, 2015-02926), Alzheimer foundation Sweden, Brain Foundation Sweden, Swedish FTD Initiative, Swedish Brain Power, Karolinska Institutet doctoral funding, Gamla tjänarinnor, Stohnes foundation, Dementia foundation Sweden and the Stockholm County Council (ALF project) (CG), Ricerca Corrente, Italian Ministry of Health (G.R., G.B., L.B.), a National Health & Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Boosting Dementia Research Leadership Fellowship (1138223) (C.D.S.), NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellowship (1079679) (G.M.H.), NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship (1103258) (O.P.), Fondazione CRF Grant 2015.0722, Fondo ...