During an autopsy on Webster’s body, forensic pathologist Bennet Omalu identified a new kind of brain injury he coined chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. Bennet Omalu, MD In the years ...

CTE stands for chronic traumatic encephalopathy. It's a brain disease caused by repeated head injuries that may include concussions. It mostly happens in athletes who play contact sports like ...

A new study has found more than 40% of athletes who played contact sports and died before turning 30 showed symptoms of the degenerative brain disease CTE. In the largest case series to date on ...

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 ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, has been linked with contact sports, especially football and boxing. More recently, the military experience, to include blast exposure, has been discussed ...

Another CTE study is exposing the dangers of repetitive head impacts for athletes. The largest study ever of CTE in dead hockey players found that the odds of having chronic traumatic ...

Despite a high risk of brain injury, military personnel rarely develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a disabling condition often found in former boxers and football players. Fewer than 5 ...

The degenerative brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, commonly known as CTE, was found in more than 40% of athletes who died before 30, a study out Monday showed, illustrating the ...

The brain disease CTE has become tied to professional football, but Ann McKee helped discover that even in high school and college, a player’s risk doubles every few years. Repeated mild hits to ...

BOSTON - Researchers at Boston University on Monday reported finding CTE in 345 of the 376 former NFL players they have studied so far. The school's CTE center said the 91.7% occurrence rate of ...

A female professional athlete has been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, for the first time, researchers say. The degenerative brain disease, which is believed to be caused ...