The team found that neurons from individuals with postmortem CTE diagnoses had specific abnormal patterns of somatic genome ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) – most often found in athletes playing contact sports – is known to share similarities ...

The neurologic disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE has most often been found in people who experienced ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE)—most often found in athletes playing contact sports—is known to share similarities with Alzheimer's disease (AD), namely the buildup of a protein called tau in ...

Analyzed 174 donated brains, including from former high school, college football players Larger studies needed to understand how p-tau relates to aging and the extent to which repetitive impact from ...

The gunman who unleashed chaos in a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper this summer is a stark reminder of how little we know about ...

Recent MRI research reveals how repeated football head impacts reshape brain structures, offering insights into chronic ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Dr. Gil Rabinovici, a leading neurologist at UC San Francisco, has examined "thousands, if not 10s of thousands" human brains. On a recent day in his ground-floor Mission Bay office, ...

Brain scans of former football players revealed subtle differences in brain grooves compared to men who never played contact sports, possibly marking early signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ...

TORONTO (CTV Network) — A first-of-its-kind Canadian research study is working towards a major medical breakthrough for a brain disorder, believed to be caused by repeated head injuries, that can only ...

High-impact sports like American football, soccer and rugby often involve repeated blows to the head, and although these impacts don't always cause concussions, a new study shows that even minor hits ...