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FawkesThePhoenix23 t1_ivsel05 wrote

I’ll just add to all of the great comments by saying that one of the challenges is money. Take, for example, neurodegenerative disease. There is a huge amount of work being done right now to develop a blood test to screen for Alzheimer’s (Google C2N Precivity). These efforts have tons of money behind them because there are huge benefits to pharmaceutical companies when screening patients for participation in clinical trials. There is not the same kind of incentive for CTE diagnosis, and it is nowhere near as prevalent as Alzheimer’s, so you don’t have the same industry financing and inertia in CTE research.

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