High - stakes
lawsuits, including ones filed by former players against the NFL, have added to the pressure to come up with methods for diagnosing and tracking the disorder in living people, but such efforts have just crossed the starting line, researchers said last week at a traumatic
brain injury conference in Washington, D.C. Only in the past month or so have they arrived at a consensus
about what CTE looks like in postmortem
brain tissue, findings presented this week in Washington, D.C., at the American Academy of Neurology meeting.