In Wyatt’s brain, researchers discovered the first case of stage 2 CTE to be diagnosed in a high school football player, according to Dr. Ann McKee, director of the Boston University CTE Center ...

It starts with a hit. Maybe a tackle in a high school football game. Maybe a blast wave during military service. The damage ...

Their open letter said the study is dismissive of their experience living with the degenerative brain disease.

A recent study suggesting media hype influences caregivers' beliefs about CTE in ex-NFL players has sparked outrage. Widows, ...

In July 2019, 18-year-old Wyatt Bramwell took his own life. About a year later, researchers at Boston University diagnosed him with stage 2 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, known as CTE ...

Dr. Ann McKee, the director of the CTE Center at Boston University, said Hernandez had stage 3 (out of 4) of the disease, which can cause violent mood swings, depression and other cognitive disorders.

CTE expert Dr. Ann McKee looked at 202 brains of football players, including 111 brains from former NFL players, over the course of the study. Of the NFL players, 110 showed signs of CTE.

— -- Former New York Giants safety Tyler Sash was found to have an extraordinarily high level of CTE when he died in September at age 27, The New York Times reported Tuesday. Sash died from ...

Aaron Hernandez spent his entire football career eluding the institutions designed to ensnare him. Opposing defenses couldn’t slow him down in three productive NFL seasons. The league’s drug ...

Divided into four stages, CTE is pathologically marked by a buildup of tau protein in the brain that can disable neuropathways. “It takes years for CTE to progress from stage 1 to stage 2, so to ...