A new study is offering clearer insight into how chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head injuries, relates to memory loss and dementia.
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 ...
Repeated hits to the head in contact sports can harm the brain long before symptoms show up, according to new research reported by LiveNow from Fox. According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE, or chronic ...
A gunman who killed four people in Midtown Manhattan on Monday night had a documented history of mental health issues, and wrote that he believed he had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a ...
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 ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Dr. Gil Rabinovici, a leading neurologist at UC San Francisco, has examined “thousands, if not tens of thousands” human brains. On a recent day in his ground-floor Mission Bay office, ...
Higher levels of inflammation are associated with damage in the brain’s white matter, according to a study of former college and professional football players published Feb. 25 in the journal ...