More than a third of Irish school rugby players are willing to continue playing while suffering a concussion, a new study has ...

The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...

The man who killed four people in the New York City skyscraper that is home to NFL headquarters carried a note blaming the ...

No ruling has been made yet on whether Tamura was suffering from the disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), which he ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to concussions and can only be diagnosed by examining the brain after death. It is linked to memory ...

There's no way anyone can definitively say they were to have it. And that can actually be very damaging if that's all they focus on, because that's going to, more often than not, prevent them from ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, suicides and parasuicides in professional American athletes: the role of the forensic pathologist. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology. https ...

According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE — or chronic traumatic encephalopathy — is a brain disease most likely caused by repeated head injuries that damage the brain's nerve cells. The Mayo Clinic notes the ...

On Aug. 2, Kenny “The Ragin’ Cajun” Vice, legendary boxer, Lafayette native and Comeaux High School alum died at 64 in his ...

More by Brandon McManus This article was originally published with the title “Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: A Player's Perspective” in SA Mind Vol. 25 No. 1 (January 2014), p. 42 ...

The disease has been diagnosed in more than 100 former NFL players and arisen as an existential threat to the United States’ ...