Brain scans from American football players reveal subtle differences in the brain's outer grooves when compared to scans from otherwise healthy men who never played contact or collision sports, a new ...
With the growing concern of concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in football players, many might be ...
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by repetitive head impacts (RHI). However, individuals with similar RHI exposure have shown differing pathology, suggesting ...
Christian LoBue, PhD, and a team from UT Southwestern Medical Center, conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to further investigate this topic. They included 36 studies with 563 unique cases ...
The 27-year-old Las Vegas man who walked into the NFL headquarters Park Avenue building with a rifle and opened fire, linking football to his mental illness as he killed four people before turning the ...
NEW YORK — The former high school football player who shot and killed four people in the NFL's Manhattan headquarters had "unambiguous diagnostic evidence" of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, ...