Shane Tamura, the reported shooter in the deadly rampage on Monday, July 28 in New York City reportedly left a suicide note reading he had CTE. The rampage ended in the death of four people, including ...

A definitive CTE diagnosis requires a post-mortem brain autopsy, according to the Mayo Clinic. While commonly associated with football, CTE risk extends to other contact sports and activities like ...

The largest study of CTE to date has found a new link between playing contact sports, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and the development of a movement disorder known as parkinsonism. The ...

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 ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—most often found in athletes playing contact sports—is known to share similarities with Alzheimer's disease (AD), namely the buildup of a protein called tau in ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is more common in people who experience extensive repetitive head impacts, and infrequent among individuals with isolated brain injuries or less extensive ...

Christian LoBue, PhD, and a team from UT Southwestern Medical Center, conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to further investigate this topic. They included 36 studies with 563 unique cases ...

Increasing risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in Africa poses serious healthcare concerns considering the lack of awareness and research Engaging in contact sports such as rugby, boxing, and ...