Among individuals who play ice hockey, a diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increases with each year of play.

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

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2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Glasgow Coma Scale, an assessment score that was developed initially for traumatic brain injury but that is now used widely in clinical ...

Former Premier League striker Dean Windass has been diagnosed with dementia at the age of just 55, with professional footballers more than three and a half times more likely to develop the syndrome ...

Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study to determine the link between duration of ice hockey played and risk and severity of CTE. Brain donors were enrolled in the Understanding Neurological ...

“By applying these tools to brain scan data, we were able to detect when multiple regions of the brain were interacting at the same time, rather than only looking at pairs of brain regions,” Santoro ...

Former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck passed away at the age of 52 in 2023. Before his death, he was vocal about his belief that he suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and ...

Frank Wycheck was right: His brain had been ravaged by football. Researchers at Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Center have determined that the onetime NFL star and Northeast ...

The Wychecks have worked with Boston University’s CTE Center after donating his brain for research per his wishes. "Wycheck's family believes his diagnosis further highlights the growing concerns ...