Jonathan Cherry
Neuropathologist and Assistant Professor of Pathology at Boston University School of Medicine, Director of the Digital Pathology Core at the BU CTE Center, researching neuroinflammation and CTE.
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Oct 6, 2026
Therese MarkowHOST
Um, yeah, so what are the symptoms? What are some of the symptoms that people have? I know that they might differ, right, but what do you see in the people?
Jonathan CherryGUEST
Well, that's kinda like the million-dollar question, right? What does CTE look like in someone who's alive? And we don't have a great answer.
Jonathan CherryGUEST
We, I mean, there's definitely a lot of good answers that are out there right now.
Jonathan CherryGUEST
Like, there's a couple ways it seems it could, it could potentially present.
Jonathan CherryGUEST
The, the commonality is a lot of individuals have clinical, or sorry, cognitive symptoms, so memory problems, executive problems, you know, planning issues.
Jonathan CherryGUEST
But then there's also folks that have more behavior mood disorder stuff, which I think a lot of people think about when they think of CTE.
22 MINS LATER
Therese MarkowHOST
... inflammation really is at the root of a lot of different health issues, no?