Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease linked to repetitive head trauma. Here's how it ...

CTE typically causes changes in your cognition (thinking), mood, behavior, and movement ability. Symptoms often start mild and worsen over time. There is no definitive way to test someone for CTE ...

The neurodegenerative disease, seen in many football players, can cause symptoms such as memory loss, depression, aggression and motor neuron disease, according to the Mayo Clinic. CTE can only be ...

Of 77 donors (median age, 51 years; White, 100%) identified in the study, 42 were diagnosed with CTE and the remaining 35 were not. The most common causes of death in those with CTE were suicide and ...

Former Tennessee Titans tight end Frank Wycheck was diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) more than a year after his death at the age of 52, his family revealed. Wycheck died on ...

The brain of former NFL star, Frank Wycheck, was found to have severe damage from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).

Tator said CTE, in and of itself, does not cause death. Nor does it directly lead to any other things that would cause death, such as a heart attack or stroke. And while the results of the autopsy ...

ice hockey is the third major sport to show a dose-response relationship between years of play and CTE risk, further strengthening the evidence that repetitive head impacts cause CTE. The risk for ...

LEADING CAUSES OF CRASHES RELATE TO SPEED ... He had made clear his wishes to work with experts for CTE research and on-going brain injury.Researchers at Boston University's Chronic Traumatic ...

Frank Wycheck was diagnosed with CTE just over a year after the former Titans star's death at the age of 52, his family revealed.