We explore the sad and tragic history of CTE in the NFL and the famous players who have unforunately been affected by it in ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, returned to the national limelight this week when a gunman who believed he had the degenerative brain disease killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper.

The NFL season has been rife with tragedy—not that the league or its media partners have noticed. Dave Zirin Gus O’Connor ...

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 ...

(CNN) -- Four former soccer players who had advanced forms of dementia were also found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a study published Tuesday. Chronic traumatic ...

This story mentions suicide. Mental health resources can be found at the bottom of this story. The death of Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound ...

CTE, like Alzheimer’s disease, is associated with a buildup of tau protein in the brain. A blood test measuring the ratios of ...

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 ...

The brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, believed to be caused by repeated head trauma, has been found in 87 of 91 deceased former NFL players tested, according to researchers. “People ...

Shane Tamura, the gunman who killed four people and himself in a New York City office building in July, had CTE, a degenerative brain disease linked to head injuries sustained in football and other ...