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Boston University School of Medicine. BU researcher Michael Alosco was awarded a grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to study a new method of detecting chronic traumatic encephalopathy — CTE — in living people. SHANNON DAMIANO/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU neurology professor receives NIH grant to study brain trauma in NFL players

Anne Jonas January 26, 2021
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders awarded Boston University associate professor of neurology Michael Alosco a two-year $460,000 grant to study the chronic traumatic encephalopathy brain disease.
Diamonds and Rust: Blood on the tracks

Diamonds and Rust: Blood on the tracks

Joel Herbert October 15, 2020
Music is simply a catalyst — very powerful, but still simply a catalyst — that has the potential to unlock within us positive and possibly negative effects if we allow it to

Ravens player to donate brain to BU for CTE research

Daily Free Press Admin February 6, 2013

With the announcement that Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk will donate his brain to the medical research program at Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, BU has demonstrated...

BUSM researchers link contact sports to brain disease

Daily Free Press Admin December 6, 2012

Researchers at the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy published the largest case study to date describing 68 cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in deceased athletes...

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