Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it ...

If it walks like a duck, it quacks, it has webbed feet and water goes off its back, it’s not a zebra: It’s CTE.” ...

memory loss and depression in those who have suffered repetitive brain trauma. Wycheck had Stage III CTE at the time of his death; the most severe form of the disease is Stage IV. MUSIC CITY ...

Stage four is the most severe level of CTE, a neurogenerative disease that can lead to dementia ... saying he planned to donate his brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation for study after ...

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CTE is only diagnosed through an autopsy of the brain and is known to be a rather rare disease. It is most commonly found in athletes, including football players and fighters. Some symptoms of CTE ...

Repetitive head impacts appear to be the chief risk factor for CTE, which is characterized by misfolded tau protein that is unlike changes observed from aging, Alzheimer’s disease, or any other brain ...

Former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck died at 52 in December. His family revealed he suffered from CTE before his ...

Stage IV is the most severe form of the disease and can lead to dementia ... he was suffering from the symptoms of CTE due to the repeated trauma his brain and body endured over 11 seasons ...

During his playing days in the NFL, Brett Favre was afraid of nothing, often holding onto the ball until the last second and ...

or any other brain disease." In other words, no one can say definitively if the vast majority of current NFL players, or past ones who are still alive, have CTE, but it can be said the vast ...

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