Uploaded April 2020 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
CTE experts CLF medical director Dr. Robert Cantu and neurologist Dr. James Castle answer questions about treating and managing CTE.
Watch the full webinar: youtu.be/YEtwQug__ew
0:00 — Is COVID-19 Slowing down research?
1:04 — How close are we to being able to diagnose CTE in the living?
2:27 — Do you consider paranoia to be a part of the CTE symptomology
2:56 — What is relationship between CTE and sleep and how do we handle that?
3:42 — The behavioural issues, the impulse control issues, and the verbal abuse, do you see that in your patients and how do you treat it?
5:51 — How do you distinguish between normal anger issues versus other disorders?
6:34 — The football industry continues to market the idea of uncertainty of uncertainty around the causality of head impacts and CTE and a lot of people still wonder if there is still “proof”? Ho strongly is the evidence on causation?
8:57 — I was a football player and a catcher in baseball, how do different exposures interact?
10:12 — How do we interact as a family with an individual with suspected CTE? The patient who doesn’t believe there is anything wrong? How do we talk to a loved one about suspected CTE?
13:18 — I’m a hockey player, am I as likely to develop CTE?
13:57 — Dr. Cantu, what do you know about genetic testing?
14:47 — Why aren’t we talking about women?
15:45 — What do we understand between the interaction between CTE and PTSD? What is different? What is the same? How can they look the same? How can we diagnose it?
18:25 — Is there a connection between CTE and Epilepsy? Is there any data on a connection?
19:45 — How are we doing on training doctors to improve treating CTE?
21:19 — I was diagnosed by my doctor with definitely having CTE… what does that mean and how can we reconcile that?
24:11 — Do pro wrestlers get CTE?
24:48 — How do we deal with this with our kids? Tracking head impacts? Preventing head impacts?
CTE experts CLF medical director Dr. Robert Cantu and neurologist Dr. James Castle answer questions about treating and managing CTE.
Watch the full webinar: youtu.be/YEtwQug__ew
0:00 — Is COVID-19 Slowing down research?
1:04 — How close are we to being able to diagnose CTE in the living?
2:27 — Do you consider paranoia to be a part of the CTE symptomology
2:56 — What is relationship between CTE and sleep and how do we handle that?
3:42 — The behavioural issues, the impulse control issues, and the verbal abuse, do you see that in your patients and how do you treat it?
5:51 — How do you distinguish between normal anger issues versus other disorders?
6:34 — The football industry continues to market the idea of uncertainty of uncertainty around the causality of head impacts and CTE and a lot of people still wonder if there is still “proof”? Ho strongly is the evidence on causation?
8:57 — I was a football player and a catcher in baseball, how do different exposures interact?
10:12 — How do we interact as a family with an individual with suspected CTE? The patient who doesn’t believe there is anything wrong? How do we talk to a loved one about suspected CTE?
13:18 — I’m a hockey player, am I as likely to develop CTE?
13:57 — Dr. Cantu, what do you know about genetic testing?
14:47 — Why aren’t we talking about women?
15:45 — What do we understand between the interaction between CTE and PTSD? What is different? What is the same? How can they look the same? How can we diagnose it?
18:25 — Is there a connection between CTE and Epilepsy? Is there any data on a connection?
19:45 — How are we doing on training doctors to improve treating CTE?
21:19 — I was diagnosed by my doctor with definitely having CTE… what does that mean and how can we reconcile that?
24:11 — Do pro wrestlers get CTE?
24:48 — How do we deal with this with our kids? Tracking head impacts? Preventing head impacts?
