CTE is defined as a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes brain damage similar to what’s seen in patients with ...

After killing four and taking his own life, Shane Tamura — a former football player at two L.A.-area high schools — left ...

Fifteen years after Greg left football, on the evening of May 21, 2024, The Ventura County Star published a news roundup ...

Young athletes (ages 6–14) in tackle football experience vastly more head impacts — up to 15 times more — and 23 times more ...

The Midtown Manhattan shooter speculated that the condition was a cause of his mental illness. But drawing that conclusion is ...

The progressive brain disease can be caused by repeated trauma to the head and has caused serious health problems for ...

CTE, caused by repeated head trauma, has prompted a reckoning at all levels of football. The gunman believed he was suffering ...

A deadly Manhattan office shooting by former high school football player Shane Tamura has renewed attention on how head ...

A 2017 study found that more than 87% of football players tested across all levels — high school, college, and pros — tested ...

In a 2023 study, Boston University CTE Center found that 345 out of the 376 former NFL players investigated had CTE, a brain ...

The release had no new information about CTE itself, nor was it tied to fresh research produced by BU. Still, it had the desired effect: It put the topic back on the radar on the eve of football's ...

Of those, researchers found clear evidence of CTE in 177, or 87.6%, of the brains they examined. On average, those 177 athletes had played football for 15 years.