If you're a sports fan, you've no doubt heard of the acronym CTE. It has made plenty of headlines in recent years.

CTE — chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a devastating, degenerative brain disease triggered by repetitive head injuries. It often impacts athletes, but also soldiers and victims of intimate partner violence.

At the moment, the condition can only be diagnosed after death. But a team of researchers at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) is working hard to change that. 

Their goal is to become the first lab in the world to diagnose the condition in life, not death — a breakthrough that could help stop the disease and even reverse it.

Our guest on this week's episode of Village Media's Closer Look podcast is Dr. Neil Vasdev, director of the Brain Health Imaging Centre at CAMH.

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