CONFERENCE COVERAGE SERIES
Keystone Symposium: Clinical and Molecular Biology of Acute and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathies
Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado, U.S.A.
26 February – 02 March 2012
Traumatic brain injury is now widely recognized as a major public health concern. Whether on the battlefield or the playing field, blows to the head can lead to encephalopathies that mimic aspects of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. The suicide of retired NFL star Junior Seau of a gunshot to the chest has many wondering if he, too, suffered from chronic brain damage. According to media reports, Seau’s brain will be examined.
Similar cases were on scientists’ minds when they gathered at Keystone, Colorado, 26 February-2 March 2012 to discuss advances in the study of acute and chronic traumatic encephalopathies. Meeting co-organizer Samuel Gandy enlisted the help of colleagues Soong Ho Kim and Effie Mitsis to prepare summaries of the symposium, and many of the speakers graciously made their slide decks available for the field at large to see.
Keystone: Traumatic Brain Injury—Epidemiology and Characteristics
Over the last decade, scientists have realized that brain injury can precipitate similar pathologies to those found in people with neurodegenerative conditions...
Keystone: Sports-Related Injury and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
Increasingly, sports-related head injuries, which can lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy, are seen as a major public health concern...
Keystone: Metabolic and Axonal Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury
There is now convincing evidence that traumatic brain injury can lead to pathologies, including deposition of Aβ, that are akin to those seen in certain neurodegenerative disorders...
Keystone: TBI—Learning From Markers, Models, and Diseases
Injury to the brain, even what might be considered mild, can have devastating consequences on brain physiology...
Keystone: Diagnosis and Model Treatments for Traumatic Brain Injury
Identifying injuries that might lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy or other neurodegenerative pathologies, and then treating those injuries, are two major challenges...