BOSTON — 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 cortege ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it ...

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 brain of the man accused of killing four people at a New York City skyscraper on Monday will be studied to determine if had the progressive brain disease known as chronic traumatic chronic ...

In summary, repeated head impacts may trigger inflammation in the brain, which can promote the accumulation of DNA mutations in neurons and contribute to cell dysfunction and death. These findings ...