The "unique pattern" of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the debilitating brain disease known as CTE, has been found for the first time in a patient before he died, NBC News reported. It was detected ...

Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain's outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new ...

Professional soccer players and American football stars are at much greater risk of developing dementia. What can we do to help them?

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — One of the many things Joe Namath is best known for is a promise he made to a crowd gathered at the Miami Touchdown Club on January 9, 1969, three days before the New York ...

The gunman who unleashed chaos in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this summer is a stark reminder of how little we know about a devastating brain disease typically associated with NFL players — which ...

COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The authoritative neuroradiology reference Diagnostic Imaging: Brain, Fifth Edition (Elsevier) now confirms that functional neuroimaging tools like ...

FILE - Ann McKee, director Boston University's center for research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, addresses an audience on the school's campus Nov. 9, ...

The crazed gunman who massacred four people at the NFL’s headquarters building in Midtownwhile holding a note begging for his brain be studied for “CTE” actually had the tragic brain disease, the ...

Endeavor Health is part of a trial aimed at diagnosing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a progressive neurodegenerative disease caused by repeated head impacts, in living patients. Among those ...

BOSTON (AP) — The degenerative brain disease that has besieged the National Football League for two decades with a billion-dollar lawsuit, congressional hearings, an A-list movie and an unrelenting ...