But clearly, which is the big point here, somebody has to voice those symptoms. They might be subjective. You as a patient say, “Listen, I think I’m struggling with memory,” or the family member points out that they are struggling in memory, or they feel their speech has deteriorated, or they feel they’re having the shuffling gait, or other signs which hint at that. Or, for example, a big chunk of CTE symptoms are also neuro-psychiatric, like changes in mood and behaviour, anger issues, disinhibition. Now, these are things which somebody has to volunteer. Either you volunteer that, or a family member volunteers it. Somebody has to actually tell them, so that a concern is raised, and then a neurologist assesses these patients in a more conclusive way and tries to shed a better light on what he or she feels might be going on.
