CHICAGO -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of a brain disease linked to repeated head blows in nearly all of them, from athletes in the National Football League, college and ...

Nearly all of the evidence to date linking sports concussions to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and other types of dementia such as Alzheimer's disease has come from case reports, fueling ...

Former Oakland Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, who died in 2015 from complications resulting from colon cancer, also suffered from the effects of the degenerative disease chronic traumatic ...

Head coach Larry Fedora of North Carolina is under fire for doubting a link between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy at Wednesday’s ACC Kickoff event. Fedora said he believes some people ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

OJ Simpson is a former NFL player who committed crimes and exhibited erratic behavior, so naturally many have wondered if the Hall of Fame running back suffered from CTE. It does not sound like we are ...

A new BU CTE “groundbreaking” study could be a game changer for safety in contact sports, according to researchers who found that repetitive hits to the head leads to brain damage in young people ...

Another CTE study is exposing the dangers of repetitive head impacts for athletes. The largest study ever of CTE in dead hockey players found that the odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy ...

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A note found on the man who opened fire at a New York City building is raising serious questions about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a brain disease often linked to ...

But CTE researchers and families of those affected by the disease say that the agenda, the guest list — and even the name — belie a desire to only give the appearance of confronting brain injuries, ...