tauopathy

It's a protein.

There are other diseases that have tau pathology, but the way it looks in CTE is very unique.

So tau in general is a protein that, that's like a scaffolding protein in your, your nerve cells.

It, it gives them a structure and lets them have a shape, and it helps, like, transport things along it.

There, there's several other tauopathies.

Where the tau is and what it looks like is unique among these different diseases.

In CTE, the tau pathology, so the tau protein, is specifically in neurons around a blood vessel-

Mm-hmm