BJ Penn's career highlights the risks of long-term head trauma in MMA fighters due to CTE. Penn's post-career mental decline ...

AFL chief Andrew Dillon has revealed the league is amping up the monitoring of head injuries in the game by piloting smart mouthguard measurements with two leading clubs this season.

Aaron Hernandez rose to NFL prominence with the New England Patriots. His life took a tragic turn when he was charged with ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Auckland’s Centre for Brain Research examined brain tissue, primarily from former rugby ...

The proportion of concussion diagnoses for both male and female players was lowest in 2023, at 4.3% and 7.8%, respectively. The highest annual proportion of concussion diagnoses was 8.4% for male ...

Based on an NFL model of brain trauma, researchers delivered a mild impact to the heads of awake, 9-month-old female rats ...

Arlene Karika-Thompson was walking away from the baseball diamond when the sound of a metal bat rang throughout the complex.

Boston University President Melissa Gilliam visited Washington, D.C. Feb. 26 and spoke to an audience of around 150 BU alumni ...

Twenty years ago, pathologist Bennet Omalu and researchers at the University of Pittsburgh published the first paper identifying a new disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain of ...

The brainchild of two ALS sufferers, the Ice Bucket Challenge took off in August 2014 — and the initiative is still having an ...

aNew York University, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY, USA bNew York University, School of Medicine, Center for Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, New York, NY, ...

Parkinson's disease and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and cost billions of dollars in health care. There is no medical treatment for these types of injuries, but new preliminary research out ...