Former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck had stage III CTE at the time of his death in December 2023, researchers ...

Frank Wycheck will always be remembered for his part in the Music City Miracle. But his CTE diagnosis should remind us all of ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that concussions and repetitive head injuries in sports could trigger latent viruses in the ...

Tufts and Oxford researchers found that head trauma reactivates HSV-1 in the brain, leading to neurodegeneration linked to ...

Mild traumatic brain injury leads to reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1, which may promote neurodegeneration and ...

Concussions and repetitive head trauma in sports like football and boxing, once accepted as an unpleasant consequence of ...

New research suggests that concussions and repetitive head trauma may reactivate dormant viruses like HSV-1 in the brain, potentially triggering neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Researchers uncover mechanisms that may connect the dots between trauma events and the emergence of disease. They point to ...

PLAYING a sport could re-awaken dormant viruses in the brain and trigger Alzheimer’s disease, a study says. Oxford scientists ...

His brain, donated to the Department of Defense Brain Tissue Repository in Bethesda ... shaking the brains in ways similar to the chronic traumatic encephalopathy that often appears in longtime ...

Boxing Hall of Famer Donald Curry is in desperate need for help. His son is publicly asking for assistance for his dad.

broken bones and soft tissue injuries – but he never anticipated that playing the game he loved would result in such devastating impairment of his brain function. CTE changed everything.” ...