It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...

In nearly 9 out of 10 of those professional athletes — 86% — researchers found the telltale brain abnormalities of CTE were extensive, varied and scattered throughout the brain.

Brain bank researchers previously reported that the earliest known evidence of CTE was found in a high school athlete who played football and other sports who died at age 18. He was not included ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE, is a degenerative brain disease that may affect athletes who have had repeated blows to the head.

If more isn’t done to combat concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, more families will be grieving tragic deaths.

The brain bank has more than 500 brains, most of them donated by former athletes or their families who suspected CTE because of mood swings, behavioral changes, depression or dementia. Of those ...

Contact sports are becoming increasingly popular in Africa, raising concern about the risk of chronic traumatic ...

MORE: 40% of Former NFL Players Had Brain Injuries “This study more than doubles the number of cases reported in the literature of CTE,” says study author Dr. Jesse Mez, an assistant professor ...

How much of ex-NFL player Aaron Hernandez’s troubled life stemmed as a result of the brain injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known simply as CTE? How much of a cause for concern is it really?

With CTE back in the headlines, and affecting athletes from range of sports, here are seven things to know about the brain disease Former San Francisco 49ers player Jason Hairston, who died by ...

The researchers who have pioneered the identification of CTE in contact-sport athletes said they may have found a way to recognize the degenerative brain disease in people while they’re still alive.

Results of an NIH study of Seau's brain revealed abnormalities consistent with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). "The brain was independently evaluated by multiple experts, in a blind ...