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→Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: more
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*Abbreviated ''CTE''. | *Abbreviated ''CTE''. | ||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
*Due to head trauma - | *Due to head trauma - usually repetitive. | ||
**Seen in ''American football'' and ''boxing''. | **Seen in ''American football'' and ''boxing''. | ||
***The in the context of boxing it is known as ''dementia pugilistica''; ''pugil'' is ''boxer'' in Latin.<ref>URL: [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pugilism http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pugilism]. Accessed on: 21 November 2011.</ref> | ***The in the context of boxing it is known as ''dementia pugilistica''; ''pugil'' is ''boxer'' in Latin.<ref>URL: [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pugilism http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pugilism]. Accessed on: 21 November 2011.</ref> | ||
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*ALS associated with trauma brain injuries.<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Costanza | first1 = A. | last2 = Weber | first2 = K. | last3 = Gandy | first3 = S. | last4 = Bouras | first4 = C. | last5 = Hof | first5 = PR. | last6 = Giannakopoulos | first6 = P. | last7 = Canuto | first7 = A. | title = Review: Contact sport-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the elderly: clinical expression and structural substrates. | journal = Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol | volume = 37 | issue = 6 | pages = 570-84 | month = Oct | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01186.x | PMID = 21696410 }}</ref> | *[[ALS]] associated with trauma brain injuries.<ref name=pmid21696410>{{Cite journal | last1 = Costanza | first1 = A. | last2 = Weber | first2 = K. | last3 = Gandy | first3 = S. | last4 = Bouras | first4 = C. | last5 = Hof | first5 = PR. | last6 = Giannakopoulos | first6 = P. | last7 = Canuto | first7 = A. | title = Review: Contact sport-related chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the elderly: clinical expression and structural substrates. | journal = Neuropathol Appl Neurobiol | volume = 37 | issue = 6 | pages = 570-84 | month = Oct | year = 2011 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2990.2011.01186.x | PMID = 21696410 }}</ref> | ||
==Huntington disease== | ==Huntington disease== | ||