Chronic traumatic encephalopathy has long been discussed as a possible driver of dementia, but proving that link has been ...

Advanced CTE quadruples risk for dementia, new study shows - Boston researchers say CTE should now be considered a cause of ...

Researchers have found in a large autopsy study of brain donors that without other progressive neurodegenerative diseases, stage III and IV chronic traumatic encephalopathy were associated ...

Boston University researchers in a groundbreaking study found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia. The largest study of its kind from the Boston University ...

The man who strode into a midtown Manhattan office building and killed four people before taking his own life on Monday night left a note at the scene in which he appears to wonder whether CTE — the ...

Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) causes dementia independently, separate from Alzheimer’s symptoms, confirming the ...

A definitive CTE diagnosis requires a post-mortem brain autopsy, according to the Mayo Clinic. While commonly associated with football, CTE risk extends to other contact sports and activities like ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A newly released analysis found that Chris Simon, a former NHL hockey player, had stage three chronic traumatic encephalopathy, CTE, when he died in 2024. Simon was 52 years old when ...

To date, nearly 350 former NFL players have been diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) after their death.