Why can’t doctors diagnose CTE in a living person?
In: Biology
It’s not that it’s impossible, it’s just that doctors currently have no way to do it. There are apparently some promising leads towards testing for it non-invasively through blood tests or brain scans, but those are still in the trial phase.
Until then, the only way to definitively diagnose it is to dissect the person’s brain. Obviously that can’t be done to a living person.
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