“We now know that over 99% of the brains that have been examined of NFL football players have demonstrated that they have CTE,” Campbell said. “And so I can't see how that would be insignificant to a ...

Former Pro Bowl guard Conrad Dobler, once dubbed the NFL's "dirtiest player," had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) at the time of his death in 2023, his family announced through the ...

Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre, a longtime advocate for concussion research and safety in youth football players, would be open to donating his brain for Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE ...

Now, with the help of a beloved weatherman, the university is trying to write a new chapter in researching CTE to understand the risk to all athletes in contact sports — not just NFL players.

"Now in hindsight, 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 NFL."Szabo said Wycheck loved football ...

who meet again for the NFL championship on Sunday. Researchers said Dobler had cortical sparing CTE, which tends to have slightly less severe cognitive symptoms but earlier onset of behavioral ...