It’s been no secret that repeated bumps to the head—even trivial ones—can have long-lasting consequences. Football players, ...

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 ...

Encephalopathy is a syndrome that involves global brain dysfunction. Encephalopathies have varying aetiologies: causes include for example ischaemic or traumatic brain injury, infectious agents ...

CBS Pittsburgh weather forecaster Jon Burnett died from complications of CTE, Dr. Joseph Malone, a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Cognitive Neurologist, said. The beloved KDKA broadcaster and ...

Bobby Hull, the former NHL legend with the Chicago Blackhawks, is part of an unfortunate trend being exposed in hockey with regards to CTE.

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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Bobby Hull, the Hall of Fame forward and two-time NHL MVP who helped the Chicago Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 1961, had chronic traumatic encephalopathy when ... it was his duty to ...

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a progressive degenerative brain disease, according to Boston University’s CTE Research Center, which has led research on the disease.

A new study examined the impact of a USSF policy to address youth players heading the soccer ball, and its effect on ...

A new study presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) examined the impact ...