The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced repeated blows to the head while playing contact sports and there’s now ...

Professional soccer players and American football stars are at much greater risk of developing dementia. What can we do to ...

Repeated hits to the head in contact sports can harm the brain long before symptoms show up, according to new research reported by LiveNow from Fox. According to the Mayo Clinic, CTE, or chronic ...

BMX icon Dave Mirra, who died in February, suffered from the type of chronic brain damage that has shown up in the brains of dozens of football players, a University of Toronto neuropathologist has ...