Dec. 8, 2021 — While chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) cannot yet be diagnosed during life, a new study provides the best evidence to date that a commonly used brain imaging technique ...

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

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, also known as CTE, is a degenerative brain disease that may affect athletes who have had repeated blows to the head.

To date, no living person has gotten a definitive diagnosis of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ... a brain scan may warn it’s time to call it quits. By Melissa Healy Staff Writer .

Encephalopathies are disorders that alter brain function. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a form of brain degeneration caused by repeated trauma to the head. It causes symptoms similar ...

Medically reviewed by Mallory Christopherson DC, FMT, CSCS Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative ...

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) happens to millions of people annually. It can strike anyone, from athletes to grandma cooking lunch. Most of these injuries go und ...

This study is the first to measure patterns of brain degeneration in CTE, and shows that repetitive head impacts are linked to loss of cells, shrinkage, and tau pathology buildup within the folds ...

The Maine medical examiner’s office requested the post-mortem study of his brain, which Dr. Ann McKee and the Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Center carried out.

A new study has diagnosed the degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in more than 40% of youth, high school and college athletes -- primarily football players -- who ...

The Army reservist who killed 18 people in what became Maine's deadliest mass shooting in the state's history, sparking a massive manhunt before he was found dead last year, had traumatic brain ...