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 ...

A new study from the nation's largest brain bank found that 96 percent of the deceased NFL players tested showed positive results for having a degenerative brain disease connected with concussions.

The NFL, which spent years criticizing researchers who warned about the dangers of football-related head trauma, has backed out of one of the most ambitious studies yet on the relationship between ...

35% of former NFL players believe that they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study by Havard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study, which surveyed nearly 2,000 former ...

The gunman who killed four people at the New York headquarters of the NFL had low-stage CTE, the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner said on Friday. “Following a thorough assessment and ...

A 2020 study also found that the risk of CTE doubles for every 2.6 years spent playing football. The condition has been reported in people as young as 17, meaning by the time a football player goes ...

WASHINGTON — Researchers have found "conclusive evidence" that repetitive head impacts cause the degenerative brain disease CTE, according to a new study. Researchers from Harvard, UCLA, Michigan and ...

The latest head-trauma news in football is decidedly mixed: not good, but now there’s at least some hope for improvement. First, the bad parts: the family of Junior Seau, the former All-Pro football ...

The NFL pledged $100 million for concussion-related research last September - $60 million on technological development, with an emphasis on improving helmets, and $40 million earmarked for medical ...