Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Ann McKee, director Boston University's center for research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...

Boston University researchers in a groundbreaking study found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia. The largest study of its kind from the Boston University ...

To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.

The defensive end, who played for the Lions for 10 seasons, is third all-time on the franchise's sack list ...

Researchers suspect CTE may begin early in an athlete's career. The late Ryan Freel is the first Major League Baseball player to be diagnosed with CTE, a rare brain degenerative disease. Rob ...

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 ...

FILE - Ann McKee, director Boston University's center for research into the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, addresses an audience on the school's campus Nov. 9, ...

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.

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 ...