The brain of formerKansas City Chiefslinebacker Jovan Belcher -- the 25-year-old player who shot and killed his girlfriend in 2012 before committing suicide -- showed signs of pervasivebrain damage ...

Pro football Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett and two other former top players have been diagnosed as having signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE. Dorsett, who rushed more than 12,000 yards with ...

Doctors and advanced researchers have long thought that the number of concussions suffered by athletes increased their likelihood of being diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease chronic ...

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, returned to the national limelight this week when a gunman who believed he had the degenerative brain disease killed four people in a Manhattan skyscraper.

Aaron Hernandez of the New England Patriots gets tackled with his helmet by Ray Lewis of the Baltimore Ravens during the 2013 AFC Championship game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 20, 2013, in Foxboro, ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) -A deadly Manhattan office shooting by former high school football player Shane Tamura has renewed attention on how head injuries are managed in amateur football. Tamura, 27, ...

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, ...

NIH-supported researchers found a 56% loss of specific neurons in athletes exposed to repeated head impacts. Brain changes appeared even without the tau protein buildup typically linked to chronic ...

The brain disease that the NFL has now acknowledged can be caused by playing football appears to be more widespread than originally thought, according to new scientific evidence that has alarmed some ...