Reports show an increasing number of retired NFL players who have suffered concussions have developed memory and cognitive issues such as dementia, Alzheimer’s, depression and chronic traumatic ...

NFL players believe that they have chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), according to a study by Havard T.H. Chan School of ...

There's no way anyone can definitively say they were to have it. And that can actually be very damaging if that's all they focus on, because that's going to, more often than not, prevent them from ...

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 of ...

A deadly Manhattan office shooting by former high school football player Shane Tamura has renewed attention on how head ...

The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for athletes who participate in contact sports, such as football.

“CTE is linked to repetitive brain trauma and has a distinct pathology that can only be diagnosed at autopsy,” says Dr. Ross Zafonte, a principal investigator of the Football Players Health Study at ...

Depending on the wishes of his family, Tamura’s brain could go to other CTE researchers following that analysis for more detailed study. Here's what brain experts know about CTE. What is CTE?

After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...

The disease has been diagnosed in more than 100 former NFL players and arisen as an existential threat to the United States’ most powerful pro sports league.