A recent medical breakthrough could be a game-changer for athletes. Researchers in Illinois confirmed last year they successfully diagnosed the first living person with CTE. WLKY’s Julie Dolan talked ...

CTE develops over time, with symptoms usually starting in mid-life. It can develop in athletes who compete in contact sports, such as football, ice hockey, boxing, and mixed martial arts. It can also ...

Football. Drugs. Aggression. Murder. Jail. Suicide. How much of ex-NFL player Aaron Hernandez’s troubled life stemmed from the brain injury chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known simply as CTE? The ...

Study my brain. As we just heard, that was in the note written by the gunman in Midtown Manhattan, according to authorities in New York. So it was a claim that he got the brain disease, chronic ...

The largest-ever study of CTE has found a new link between playing contact sports, CTE, and developing Parkinson’s disease-like symptoms. The Boston University study of 481 dead athletes reveals that ...

Today’s article comes from the Concussion Legacy Foundation website which is a nonprofit that complies and studies the effects of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). According to the Boston ...

Brain damage occurs in boxers and mixed martial arts fighters alike, but it unfolds differently as these athletes age, a new study finds. Among current fighters, the loss of brain volume results from ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy is a progressive, degenerative disease that afflicts the brain in people who have suffered repeated concussions and traumatic brain injuries. CTE has been in the ...

(NEW YORK) — The 27-year-old man who allegedly shot and killed four people at a Midtown office building on Monday carried a note in his pocket claiming he suffered from CTE and asking that his brain ...

Dec. 20 (UPI) --A new test could bring scientists one step closer to pinpointing the protein associated with Alzheimer's disease and a degenerative neurological disorder found in some NFL players, a ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- An international team of scientists at Indiana University School of Medicine, University of Kansas and the U.K. Medical Research Council have dismantled the belief that Alzheimer's ...