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

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 ...

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 ...

A treatment tested by researchers in Boston found it improves motor function, coordination and spatial memory in mice. But it ...

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 ...

Motor themes evolved to include novel research directions such as transcranial magnetic stimulation, tau pathology, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Notably, neuroinflammation and ...

There is ongoing research into developing methods to diagnose CTE ... The Need for Awareness and Early Intervention in CTE Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy is a serious condition that not only impacts ...