According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE is a degenerative brain disorder caused by "repeated head injuries," and it worsens over time, causing issues like dementia, memory loss, gross motor function and ...

An examination of Steve Montador's brain ... the worst he’s seen in the 16 brains of former athletes who had multiple concussions the project has examined, but the chronic traumatic ...

World-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu believes OJ Simpson suffers from CTE. The film "Concussion" was inspired by his discovery of CTE in NFL players. More from Science World ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A new study released by the department of Veterans Affairs and Boston University found that 87 of 91 deceased NFL players who were tested were found to have the ...

The condition can only be diagnosed posthumously, as it can only be found once the brain ... CTE in a postmortem examination.

Families of deceased NFL players pushed an appeals court to reverse a federal court's decision that they must dig up and ...

Chronic traumatic brain injury or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is considered by some authorities to be the most serious health problem in modern day boxing. 1 The condition is often referred ...

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is joining the ranks of NFL players and other athletes donating their brains to concussion and CTE research following his death. NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is ...

The Boston University CTE Center study of 77 dead male ice hockey players showed that the risk for the brain disease jumped by 34% with each year played. Eighteen of the 19 dead National Hockey ...

The ongoing story of hockey players and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE ... disease caused by repeated traumatic brain injuries increases with every year played. The Boston University ...

Soccer has a concussion problem. So many in and around the game don’t yet realize, or opt for ignorance. But it does. And it might just have a CTE problem, too.

The gunman who carried out the worst mass shooting in Maine history ... A post-mortem analysis of Robert Card's brain by Boston University's CTE Center, completed at the request of the Maine ...