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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25421001
Abstract
It
has long been suggested that prior traumatic brain injury (TBI)
increases the subsequent incidence of chronic neurodegenerative
disorders, including Alzheimer disease, Parkinson disease, and
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Among these, the association with
Alzheimer disease has the strongest support. There is also a
long-recognized association between repeated concussive insults and
progressive cognitive decline or other neuropsychiatric abnormalities.
The latter was first described in boxers as dementia pugilistica, and
has received widespread recent attention in contact sports such as
professional American football. The term chronic traumatic
encephalopathy was coined to attempt to define a "specific" entity
marked by neurobehavioral changes and the extensive deposition of
phosphorylated tau protein. Nearly lost in the discussions of
post-traumatic neurodegeneration after traumatic brain injury has been
the role of sustained neuroinflammation, even though this association
has been well established pathologically since the 1950s, and is
strongly supported by subsequent preclinical and clinical studies.
Manifested by extensive microglial and astroglial activation, such
chronic traumatic brain inflammation may be the most important cause of
post-traumatic neurodegeneration in terms of prevalence. Critically,
emerging preclinical studies indicate that persistent neuroinflammation
and associated neurodegeneration may be treatable long after the
initiating insult(s).
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