Over the past 25 years Dave Herman has developed problems with memory and thinking. Now, an experimental technique has helped doctors diagnose him with a disease known as CTE Over the past 25 years ...

CHICAGO -- Research on 202 former football players found evidence of brain disease in nearly all of them, from athletes in the NFL, college and even high school. It's the largest update on chronic ...

CTE is a degenerative brain disease that sets in over a period of time after repeated bouts of traumatic brain injury. Symptoms include depression, emotional instability, disorientation, erratic ...

Scientists have zeroed in our genetic code to better determine why some people develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the Alzheimer’s-like disease associated with repeated hits to the head. In a ...

On November 9th and 10th, I had the pleasure of directing our annual Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy Conference, jointly sponsored by Boston University and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare ...

Boston University has been leading the research on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, and they may have just made a breakthrough after identifying a possible way to diagnose CTE in living ...

A new study from researchers at the Boston University Alzheimer's Disease and CTE Center is helping solve the mystery as to why the brain shrinks in a unique pattern, known as atrophy, in chronic ...

Over the years, the NHL and hockey in general have had to grapple with the scourge of head injuries. Whether it’s former players who step out publicly or whose families step out publicly after their ...

Three years ago, Dr. Ann McKee of Boston University published findings that among 111 deceased NFL players, 99% showed signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), brain degeneration that is ...

Don't woodpeckers get dizzy with all the drilling they do with their beaks? A new study finds that contrary to the previously held belief, woodpeckers do, in fact, get some form of brain damage from ...