U.S., Dec. 25 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07302503) titled 'Pilot Study Evaluating brainQuant's Ability to Detect Alterations in White Matter in Diffusion MRI, Indicative of Post-traumatic Lesions' on Dec. 10.
Brief Summary: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease described in boxing, but also in contact sports such as American football.
Soccer, due to repeated headers, could also be associated, albeit to a lesser degree, with the development of this type of pathology.
Indeed, it has been shown that playing soccer can be accompanied by cognitive impairments, and neurodegenerative brain abnormalities have been described in neuropathology studies of former profe...