08-09-2017, 11:30 AM
(08-09-2017, 02:23 AM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: From what you quoted, T806 is only approved for research. Thus it is only experimental at this stage, e.g. unproven. Also, you cited one study. On less than 50 patients. Which means they don't even know if the results of the first small study are even reproducible.
The goal is to develop a scan which can diagnose CTE in living patients instead of post-mortem brain biopsies during autopsies. As you have pointed out with your sources, researchers are working on scans to diagnose CTE in living patients, but they aren't quite there, yet.
Hopefully, we can put this discussion to bed ... finally. I think we can all agree that:
(1) medicine is not as simple as math. In math if A=B=C, therefore A=C. Not so simple in medicine.
(2) CTE is a "repetitive" thing. One hit to the head (e.g. in a car crash), will not lead to CTE. An offensive lineman takes a hit to the head at least 20 times per game times 30 games as a high-schooler plus 20 times 40 games as a collegian plus 20 times 160 games as a 10-year pro means 4,600 hits to the head PLUS however many hits to the headsustained during practice.
(3) The human brain was not designed to take blows to the head, unlike the brains of woodpeckers, big horn sheep, etc.
(4) The technology does not yet exist to determine if CTE exists (without resorting to #1 above) in a living brain.
