Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it affects the brain and who is most at risk.

A scientific study of former Titans tight end Frank Wycheck's brain confirmed the late NFL star suffered from the degenerative brain disease in the last years of his life.

or any other brain disease." In other words, no one can say definitively if the vast majority of current NFL players, or past ones who are still alive, have CTE, but it can be said the vast ...

CTE is a degenerative brain disease that has been linked to repeated ... will be given the much-needed resources and guidance prior to their symptoms reaching a debilitating state.

can cause symptoms such as memory loss, depression, aggression and motor neuron disease, according to the Mayo Clinic. CTE can only be diagnosed after death during an autopsy of the brain ...

Because it can only be diagnosed with an autopsy, the neurodegenerative disease is difficult to pin in cases of professional ...

The neurological disease is most severe at Stage ... I understand that he was suffering from the symptoms of CTE due to the repeated trauma his brain and body endured over 11 seasons in the ...

"Now in hindsight, I understand that he was suffering from the symptoms of CTE due to the repeated trauma his brain and body endured ... of the neurodegenerative disease that can lead to dementia ...

memory loss and depression in those who have suffered repetitive brain trauma. Wycheck had Stage III CTE at the time of his death. Stage IV is the most severe form of the disease. FRANK WYCHECK ...