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Abnormal tau protein (brown) in a sample of the brain in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) on the left and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) on the right. In CTE, tau is deposited at the depths of brain folds (’sulci’), whereas in AD tau is deposited throughout the gray matter but not in the underlying white matter.

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[caption id="attachment_77831" align="alignright" width="322"] Abnormal tau protein (brown) in a brain sample in chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), on left and Alzheimer’s disease (AD), right. In…

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