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Searching for a Blood Test to Diagnose Football-Linked Brain Disease

CTE is linked to a protein also seen in Alzheimer’s.
A Miami Dolphins player is tackled by San Diego Chargers players in San Diego.Photographer: Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images
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Hi, it’s Annika in New York. Happy Thanksgiving! Before I sat down to watch the big game, I caught up with a former college football player about his new career working as a behavioral neuroscientist and an anti-concussion advocate. More on that in a moment, but first ...

Chris Nowinski used to be a college football player and a WWE wrestler. Now he’s a scientist and patient advocate studying one of the biggest problems he and his friends have faced: concussion damage.